condescends

Example Sentences

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It never condescends to Sisters Barnes and Paxton and they always have sound rebuttals at the ready; they are also observant, smart and canny.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

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

"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.

From Salon • May 8, 2023

Makumbi neither preaches nor condescends, but with beautiful and subtle prose successfully captures the reader’s imagination.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2020

Voltaire says of the deluge:— 'We consider it as a miracle; first, because all the facts by which God condescends to interfere in the sacred books are so many miracles.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles