All 4 Uses of
condescending
in
Catch-22
- 'They probably won't let you,' Colonel Korn remarked with a condescending smile, savoring the situation.†
Chpt 13 *
- 'I'm sorry I laughed at you,' he said sincerely, and he continued in a tone of respectful condescension.†
Chpt 23
- A brash assistant brought the chaplain a stolen Zippo cigarette lighter as a gift and informed him condescendingly that Wintergreen was too deeply involved with wartime activities to concern himself with matters so trivial as the number of missions men had to fly.†
Chpt 30
- 'Oh, I had to do that after I raped her,' Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity