- present tense form of condescend (3rd person singular).
condescends
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It never condescends to Sisters Barnes and Paxton and they always have sound rebuttals at the ready; they are also observant, smart and canny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
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 never condescends, and her fluid prose is suggestive of larger and darker human themes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
"Dear Prince, you know that whether with or without a phantom, I could never yet answer this question which Your Highness frequently condescends to ask me."
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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