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Meanings of condescending in English

(Used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension.

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Usage of condescending in English
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Can you imagine anyone talking about him in such condescending terms today?
The Guardian
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Pixar does a great job in always not condescending to their audience.
Reuters
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A condescending commiseration in every look, and in every word he uttered.
The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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What if I'd told this condescending little twit his report was good?
The Guardian
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His manner to me, although still condescending, was more cautious than before.
Julian
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And that's why he broke it?' Homer asked with a condescending chuckle.
Metro 2034
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I hate all the Salem women, so superior and condescending and Christian.
Java Head
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And the interviews with the doctors, who were so condescending, so obvious.
Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
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When he spoke, he worked to keep his voice from sounding condescending.
A Winter Haunting
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It has for its great theme the condescending, giving love of Jesus.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
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He had brought with him the condescending manner of a German Prince.
Lectures and Essays
12
Funny how he could sound comforting and condescending at the same time.
Riding the storm
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The other laughed a false laugh and assumed an airy, condescending tone.
The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Well, he wouldn't be so condescending at the end of a rope.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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She glided through the room, accepting bows with a queenly, condescending smile.
The Secret Eleanor
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She wasn't condescending, she laughed normally, she conversed normally, she flirted normally.
A journey: my political life
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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