All 6 Uses of
condescending
in
Crime and Punishment
- At the other persons in the room, including the tavern-keeper, the clerk looked as though he were used to their company, and weary of it, showing a shade of condescending contempt for them as persons of station and culture inferior to his own, with whom it would be useless for him to converse.†
Chpt 1.2
- The head clerk looked at him with a condescending smile of compassion, and at the same time with a certain triumph, as at a novice under fire for the first time—as though he would say: "Well, how do you feel now?"†
Chpt 2.1 *
- I feel vexed as it is, that I condescended to speak to Zametov yesterday in the restaurant….†
Chpt 3.6
- Here was a girl of pride, character, virtue, of education and breeding superior to his own (he felt that), and this creature would be slavishly grateful all her life for his heroic condescension, and would humble herself in the dust before him, and he would have absolute, unbounded power over her!†
Chpt 4.3
- Would you believe that this honest and jealous woman, after many scenes of hysterics and reproaches, condescended to enter into a kind of contract with me which she kept throughout our married life?†
Chpt 6.4
- Svidrigailov's lips were twisted in a condescending smile; but he was in no smiling mood.†
Chpt 6.5
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity