All 7 Uses of
condescending
in
Arrowsmith
- He had been "rushed," but he had resented the condescension of the aristocracy of men from the larger cities.†
Chpt 2 *
- "They came out at a medical convention in Philadelphia in 1902," Ira condescended.†
Chpt 2
- "I hope you enjoyed the play," he condescended to her.†
Chpt 7
- Through all the state there were celebrated poker players, rusticlooking men with stolid faces, men who sat in shirtsleeves, chewing tobacco; men whose longest remark was "By me," and who delighted to plunder the gilded and condescending traveling salesmen.†
Chpt 16
- He was contented enough in gossiping about fishing with the barber, nor was he condescending to meteorologicomania, but except for Leora he had no one with whom he could talk of his work.†
Chpt 16
- There was in Nautilus a country club which was the axis of what they called Society, but there was also a tribe of perhaps twelve families in the Ashford Grove section who, though they went to the country club for golf, condescended to other golfers, kept to themselves, and considered themselves as belonging more to Chicago than to Nautilus.†
Chpt 22
- Joyce worshiped him, and Martin was afraid of him, because he saw that this minuscule aristocrat, this child born to the self-approval of riches, would some day condescend to him.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity