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

Because no matter how low on the totem pole you may be or wherever you came from, there’s no need to condescend or to put other people down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

She was not mere sweetness, and he could not afford to condescend to her, for she was a force, she could drive him out of his depth and push him under.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

“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

He closes practices, condescends with the press and refuses to attend alumni functions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

But, at a pinch, the gitano now condescends to engage on the lighter work of the land—hoeing, weeding, &c.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

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

Harry took aim at it with the wand Ron had given him the previous night, which Hermione had since condescended to examine, and had decided was made of blackthorn.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

“It’s pretentious indulgence and I’m making a condescending judgment that half the audience doesn’t have a clue about it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

But in a setting that demands connection, he can appear condescending or insincere.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

“It’s 1773,” Elliot said, his tone as condescending as it could possibly be.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin