condescend
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"When I started coaching women for the first time, I did not condescend to them," said Dorrance.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Don’t question the character of his backers or condescend; appeal to their interests and positive dreams.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
Yet the paintings never gave the viewer permission to condescend to the subject matter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
The monsters, wildly imaginative, don’t condescend to a 10-year-old’s sensibilities — or a 24-year-old’s.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
In the American psyche, it’s the Miss Millie story line from Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” about someone so blinded by a conception of her own virtue that it doesn’t register when she condescends.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
He condescends; she bites back: “You always smile when you insult me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
Hopkins, a graduate of Winchester school and Cambridge University, condescends to his neighbors in Beadle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
The reverend chaplain feeling the uncertainty of human life, and knowing how frail is our the to existence, waits in the perfect conviction of a large party before he condescends to appear.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
He was popular, but for a long time the critics condescended to him, calling him a lightweight Sunday painter and deriding him for his “matchstick” figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Still, she never condescended to or attacked Trump’s supporters.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024
“The consistency of the experience of going to doctor after doctor, seeking help, and being disbelieved and condescended to is really surprising to me,” Garvin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2023
She started out as a young, introverted newbie in the Foreign Service, condescended to by autocrats and bad bosses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
He failed to show up for work, and when he did, he worked listlessly, and condescended to his father’s employees.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
“It’s pretentious indulgence and I’m making a condescending judgment that half the audience doesn’t have a clue about it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
It said that, in many cases, this was done through "prolonged nagging and with unpleasant and condescending language".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
He’s condescending to almost everyone except his church friends.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
RAND: We have some new experiments, not written up yet, where AI is either affirming, neutral or condescending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Steve would speak to the warders in a condescending and grandiloquent style that they probably did not understand.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing condescend
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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