condescend
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Condescend to Updike’s golf poems at your peril.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2015
Condescend to share the fortune and the fate of one who only esteems his lot in life because it enables him to offer you a station not utterly unworthy of your transcendent excellence!'
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Condescend to admit my humble person to the hut of Baryu the fisherman.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
Condescend to him! be haughty and—what do you call it?—urbane to him!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various
Condescend, Sirs, to make my parents sensible of the injustice of an exclusive tenderness, and of the necessity of distributing their care and affection among all their children equally.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
Vocabulary lists containing condescend
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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Grade 10, List 3
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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