- present tense form of condescend (3rd person singular).
condescends
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In the American psyche, it’s the Miss Millie story line from Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” about someone so blinded by a conception of her own virtue that it doesn’t register when she condescends.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
He condescends; she bites back: “You always smile when you insult me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
She never condescends, and her fluid prose is suggestive of larger and darker human themes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
He is pure, noble and godlike, loves the right, hates the wrong, and never condescends to any thing little, hateful, or mean.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
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