condescension
Example Sentences
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Only once does the film display toward the materialists even a whiff of condescension.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
This makes for puckish satire of the literati and its highly cultured brand of condescension; at times the movie feels like a South American spin on a Noah Baumbach film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 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
Partnered people begrudge the pressure; single people resent the condescension.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
I tried to fathom their motives, but I could detect no condescension in them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing condescension
A Christmas Carol
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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