condescension
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He also cites the mystery novelist Agatha Christie, about whom he has a new book out in May that aims “to show that any stylistic and intellectual condescension towards her is unjustified.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
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
Partnered people begrudge the pressure; single people resent the condescension.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 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
Now he said to her, with utmost condescension, “Dear girl, your credulity is as vast as this desert. One might get lost in it and never again encounter fact or reason.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing condescension
A Christmas Carol
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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