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
Contra all the stifled yawns and thinly veiled condescension, the contest — now in its final stretch — is the most compelling California gubernatorial campaign in decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
Only once does the film display toward the materialists even a whiff of condescension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“As Mac he avoids both melodrama and condescension, finding climaxes in each small step toward rehabilitation, each new responsibility shouldered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
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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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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