All 3 Uses of
condescending
in
Persuasion
- He had condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power, but he would never condescend to sell.†
Chpt 1 *
- He had condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power, but he would never condescend to sell.†
Chpt 1
- The party drove off in very good spirits; Sir Walter prepared with condescending bows for all the afflicted tenantry and cottagers who might have had a hint to show themselves, and Anne walked up at the same time, in a sort of desolate tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity