condescension

Example Sentences

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“As Mac he avoids both melodrama and condescension, finding climaxes in each small step toward rehabilitation, each new responsibility shouldered.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Fastvold doesn’t judge Lee’s convictions; there isn’t an ounce of cynicism or condescension.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

Then we can talk about specific groups’ concerns — but here we’ve got to avoid any hint of the condescension that so often seeps into our message.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

“He could smell out condescension, a slight, an air of superiority or a snub at a thousand paces; and at once smelt, he could charge after it with quite shocking abandon.”

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

They spoke to him with the authority of people who had done this before, and also with a slight condescension; his fate was, after all, in their hands.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie