condescends
Example Sentences
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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
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
