- present tense form of condescend (3rd person singular).
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
He condescends; she bites back: “You always smile when you insult me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
"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
Once she condescends to the iniquity of "proceeding to take," than which "commencing" is only one stage lower in literary vulgarity; and many of her sentences are as clumsy as a clown's dancing-steps.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Mrs. Alexander
