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condescension

noun as in disdain, superiority

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In the ’90s, nobody had to endure the peculiar combination of condescension, contempt and she-looks-so-thin-I-just-hope-she’s-okay concern trolling that Apple did.

Scandinavian Americans are now part of the cultural mainstream, but in the 19th century, Scandinavian farmers struggling to make a living in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas were regarded with condescension by the New England cultural elite.

From Time

I may be overstepping myself with this hunch, but I see two confident, highly intelligent people — you, the eminent scientist — who have detection systems that react strongly to condescension.

The answer, dripping with condescension, was “if you put 100 labradoodles in a room together, you’d be lucky if two of them looked alike.”

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His smirky condescension is pure sexist gaslighting, yet Vivian can’t yet see it for what it is.

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The irony is that the president, with smug condescension, is quick to attack others for being out of touch with reality.

President Kennedy smiled without a hint of condescension and extended a hand to Douglas that was at once firm and remarkably soft.

The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.

Ironically, their claims of condescension are condescending themselves.

Obama can exhibit strains of personal diffidence, even condescension, toward people, especially critics.

The duke was in the highest animation, and he talked to every one round him, as we marched along, with more than condescension.

A loud laugh greeted this remark, and Billy, smiling with condescension, said he was gratified by their approval.

There was a slight, almost indescribable tone of condescension or disparagement in her voice, the reason of which I will explain.

Her overtures of familiarity and service was unskilfully made; her very timidity construed into labored condescension.

The act had condescension in it; yet, too, something unconsciously simple and primitive.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to condescension, such as: airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, loftiness, and lordliness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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