condescend

"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

They do not marginalize or condescend to him; Pira loves them unstintingly.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022

“My my, Mr. Epstein, aren’t you on a high horse. How easy it is to condescend to and patronize a woman, especially one you imagine needs taking down a peg,” she tweeted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

“Well, now,” said Donovan sweetly, “I do hope he’ll condescend to explain it all to me after he’s puzzled everything out.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

“It’s a lovely performance, one that never condescends to play on pathos but grows in strength with each new outrage.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2019

He closes practices, condescends with the press and refuses to attend alumni functions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

There are stories afloat respecting Madame de Maintenon, and in everybody's mouth, which the Duc de Noailles scarcely condescends to notice.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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

While Morris makes space not only for abstract painting but for other variously condescended aesthetic forms, Bradley, not having had the luxury of such freedom, makes space only for himself.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 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

The video itself has been roundly seen as damaging to Miller, who comes across as bullying and condescending, and whose rage at the situation seems to be boiling just below the surface.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Senior US official Dan Negrea said the US delegation would continue to make similar stands until France "renounces their condescending and disrespectful rhetoric".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“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

But in a setting that demands connection, he can appear condescending or insincere.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

Kin groaned as he walked around the forge to her and leaned over the tall counter, a condescending smile on his face.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack