All 7 Uses of
condescending
in
Atlas Shrugged
- His manner had conveyed a peculiar note of condescending reproach whenever she attempted to make the conversation specific, as if she were giving proof of ill-breeding by breaking some unwritten code known to everyone else.†
Chpt 1.4
- She had a homely face, a bad complexion and a look of impertinent condescension derived from the fact that she belonged to one of the very best families.†
Chpt 1.4
- He did not know, but they knew, that his courteous politeness was condescension toward the people who had expected to snub him, the people who had said that the age of achievement was past.†
Chpt 1.6
- She was condescendingly tolerant.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- She let him look at it for a moment, almost as an act of condescending mercy to an adversary struggling to refuel his strength, then she asked, with a note of imperious pride in her voice, pointing at the inscription, "What's that?†
Chpt 3.1
- Instead, he heard himself answering their questions in the smug, condescending tone of a man who shares all the secrets of the highest authorities: "Yes, the State Science Institute is proud of its record of public service…… The State Science Institute is not the tool of any private interests or personal greed, it is devoted to the welfare of mankind, to the good of humanity as a whole-" spouting, like a dictaphone, the sickening generalities he had heard from Dr. Ferns.†
Chpt 3.3
- The faces had not condescended to argue or even to threaten him; they had merely given him orders.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity