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Meanings of arch in inglês
(Used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension.
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Examples for "condescending"
Examples for "condescending"
1
Can you imagine anyone talking about him in such condescending terms today?
2
Pixar does a great job in always not condescending to their audience.
3
A condescending commiseration in every look, and in every word he uttered.
4
What if I'd told this condescending little twit his report was good?
5
His manner to me, although still condescending, was more cautious than before.
1
Good point, even if it was made by a patronizing Limey shithead.
2
The question had been intended as patronizing, and they both knew it.
3
After this cowardly threat Caspian changed his tune and started being patronizing.
4
Kelly found her brother's attitude extremely annoying, to say nothing of patronizing.
5
The king decided upon patronizing the painter whose charge was the lower.
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What it means in the United Kingdom: Moderately patronising word for woman.
2
There was something amusingly patronising in her manner toward the younger girls.
3
He could be kind and thoughtful in a patronising sort of way.
4
The way Eskom communicate with the public is getting a little patronising.
5
But then you would just be left with John Inverdale's patronising fandom.
Usage of arch in inglês
1
A step in the distance; some one coming up towards the arch.
2
Continue until you pass under the rock arch, where you turn right.
3
The high arch of the gateway of the chateau was in sight.
4
I found the following inscription upon an arch in the upper story:
5
At the top of the arch was a flattering inscription in verse.
6
On the round of the middle of the arch the gig stopped.
7
In the point of the arch beneath, are the three Evangelical Virtues.
8
He was the arch-priest of all sensationalism in the guise of logic.
9
Two sullen crimson discs glowed in the black arch of the tunnel.
10
The semicircular arch of the thirteenth century still holds sway in Provence.
11
And for the abutments of the arch of proof the money-spending sufficed.
12
The principal features of its architecture were the dome and round arch.
13
Off in the distance a rainbow formed an arch across the sky.
14
The arch-tempter tries in vain to seduce him from the right path.
15
The most simple bridge or trussed form is the well-known A-shaped arch.
16
Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.
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