condescends

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

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.

He condescends; she bites back: “You always smile when you insult me.”

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

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