condescension
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Canadians have adjusted cheerfully to many decades of friendship, have welcomed booming trade partnerships and have endured Yank ignorance and condescension.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Children’s books, and the adults who write them, receive their fair share of gentle condescension and polite dismissal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Endowed with a formidable hauteur, her Jocasta acts graciously, but with an unmistakable note of condescension.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
Woolf was a snob, but she was hardly unique in her condescension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Other institutions—the nation’s political parties, the industries of mass entertainment and communications, the companies that employed them—have all treated my parents with condescension.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Vocabulary lists containing condescension
A Christmas Carol
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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