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

There’s a magic mailbox involved; it’s really dumb and also really great, and the two stars never once condescend to the material.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023

The monsters, wildly imaginative, don’t condescend to a 10-year-old’s sensibilities — or a 24-year-old’s.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

“And if I condescend to associate with her, what would you do, father? Throw me in the mines as well?”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

“She catches the details of ordinary existence in a manner that’s reminiscent of the director Mike Leigh. She never condescends, and her fluid prose is suggestive of larger and darker human themes.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2021

“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

When he condescends to the abstract, his subjects bring an appetite with them.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

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

And that doesn’t include the tweets from professional, blue-check-marked figures who have condescended to me and belittled my work or expertise.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022

Wart knew that if he told the elder boy about Us conversation with Merlyn, Kay would refuse to be condescended to, and would not come.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Clarkson alleged that an employee spoke to her in a condescending manner after revealing that a similar item would cost $15,000, comparing the encounter to the infamous shopping scene in “Pretty Woman.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

That included unpleasant exchanges in public transport, conflicts with neighbours, or condescending remarks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s condescending and hacky and the humor always aims for the lowest common denominator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The video itself has been roundly seen as damaging to Miller, who comes across as bullying and condescending, and whose rage at the situation seems to be boiling just below the surface.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Campbell could not disagree with Europeans’ condescending view of American science as a backwater rich in money and manpower but poor in theoretical understanding.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik