condescension
Example Sentences
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What angered Scots-Irish Americans most was elite condescension, which aroused the populist uprising that put Jackson in the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
While explaining that the paper used to occupy the whole building, employing over 1000 people, our frenemy Ken remarks, “That’s absolutely insane, if I do say so myself,” saucing each word with condescension.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
He also offered more of the condescension toward his colleagues that defined the video — at one point referring to them as his “amateur gunsmithing colleagues” and blasting their decision as inept.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 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
And in any case one should not confuse clarity with condescension.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing condescension
A Christmas Carol
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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