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

Like Hofstadter’s work, “Reality+” is frequently weird, wild and wonderful; it captivates the common reader by refusing to condescend.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

“And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The word means first—love in exercise to those who are below the lover, or who deserve something else; stooping love that condescends, and patient love that forgives.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander

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

It’s there when he’s being called “the problem” by a benevolent Catholic priest or when he’s being condescended to by his future father-in-law.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022

He failed to show up for work, and when he did, he worked listlessly, and condescended to his father’s employees.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

It said that, in many cases, this was done through "prolonged nagging and with unpleasant and condescending language".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

He’s condescending to almost everyone except his church friends.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

There was no difference in effectiveness between neutral and affirming debunkbots, whereas when the debunkbot was condescending, it was somewhat less effective at reducing conspiracy beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

I think there’s nothing cooler than when you meet an artist who had a storied career and they seem completely down to earth and easy to talk to, and not condescending or patronizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

“You must know,” said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, “that I have no heart,—if that has anything to do with my memory.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens