- present tense form of condescend (3rd person singular).
condescends
Example Sentences
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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
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon • May 8, 2023
Hopkins, a graduate of Winchester school and Cambridge University, condescends to his neighbors in Beadle.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023
He closes practices, condescends with the press and refuses to attend alumni functions.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019
At the Camera there is just the same difficulty, which will hardly be overcome till the laws of nature are reformed, and light condescends to travel in convenient curves.
From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.
