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Significats de disdainfulness en anglès

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The trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior.

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        Examples for "condescension"
        Examples for "condescension"
        1
        Nor do I relish condescension on the part of my social betters.
        The Far Horizon
        2
        Yet she was not surprised by the condescension in the doctor's comment.
        The thirteenth tale: a novel
        3
        No; that would be a condescension unworthy of her beauty and youth.
        December Love
        4
        The portrait of the evangelical Korean Christian community is accomplished without condescension.
        Reuters
        5
        The invitation was given with all the condescension of a noble lady.
        Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
        1
        There was in her no longer the superciliousness which had irritated him.
        Of Human Bondage
        2
        A flush coloured Soames's pale cheeks, but his superciliousness did not waver.
        The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
        3
        Observe; Tootle holds in his hand his 'little compendium,' raised in haughty superciliousness.
        The Unclassed
        4
        In a tone not wholly free from superciliousness, Miss Cutler said:
        Aikenside
        5
        The woman gave Susan a searching, feminine look which changed swiftly to superciliousness.
        Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
        Translations for disdainfulness
        espanyol
        desdén