Both Uses of
condescending
in
Mrs. Dalloway
- Aware that he was looking at a silver two-handled Jacobean mug, and that Hugh Whitbread admired condescendingly with airs of connoisseurship a Spanish necklace which he thought of asking the price of in case Evelyn might like it—still Richard was torpid; could not think or move.†
- She had been merely condescending.
*condescending = doing something considered beneath one's position; or treating others as inferior
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity