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

Leaving the ironies to us, she refuses to condescend to the character.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Yet the paintings never gave the viewer permission to condescend to the subject matter.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021

“He has no right to condescend to us is all I’m saying,” Alaska said, continuing her conversation with the Colonel.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

It never condescends to Sisters Barnes and Paxton and they always have sound rebuttals at the ready; they are also observant, smart and canny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024

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

Hopkins, a graduate of Winchester school and Cambridge University, condescends to his neighbors in Beadle.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

What he would do? or what would be the judgment of the law, suppose a certain case should arise?—are questions he never condescends to answer.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

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

A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet’s mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

That included unpleasant exchanges in public transport, conflicts with neighbours, or condescending remarks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Responding to a question about that at an economics conference, Bessent stated — with “a condescending smirk,” I reported at the time — “I get a feeling the American people won’t see it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Danish executives “have this condescending view of American healthcare,” a former Novo staffer said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

When he leaves, Margerison angrily describes her in his video commentary as "condescending" and complains that "they don't understand".

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Jack didn’t say this in a mocking or condescending tone.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman