condescends
Example Sentences
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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 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
The train condescends to pause an instant at the point nearest the town, and then puffs arrogantly on again, while the passengers who have been hustled off hoof it the rest of the way.
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
