condescension

Example Sentences

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Woolf was a snob, but she was hardly unique in her condescension.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

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

But the greatest part of his condescension he had bestowed on Kit, once he had understood that her grandfather had been Sir Francis Tyler.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare