Sample sentences for CONDESCENDING

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Definition

treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity

She gave me that condescending look as though I wasn't worthy to ask her a question.

condescending = treating others as inferior

My older sister condescended to take me shopping with her.

condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.
T.S. Eliot
To their mind she was cold and snobbish, condescending, odd.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

condescending = a manner that treats others as inferiors

Jem condescended to take me to school the first day,
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity

Not all young people realize how important it is to treat children with respect and dignity instead of condescension.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble

condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors

(editor's note: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.)

"If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he remarked, "I should be better able to advise you."
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

condescend = do something considered beneath your position or dignity

She patted my head, but the gesture didn't feel condescending.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

condescending = as though treating others as inferiors

I picked out a man humble enough in life to condescend to talk with one so shabby as I, and got his account of the matter.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

condescend = do something considered beneath one's position or dignity

Look, could you please lose the condescending tone here?
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil

condescending = a manner that treats others as inferiors

I beg Your Majesty will condescend to forgive me.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia

condescend = do something considered beneath one's position or dignity

She made no attempt to mask the condescension in her voice.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors

His voice dripped condescension.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief

condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors

Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them;
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

condescension = doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity

...with a condescending smile.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

condescending = a manner that treats others as inferiors

...maybe he's just a condescending know-it-all.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

condescending = treating others as inferior

Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and...
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity

But I couldn't stand the condescension.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors

She spoke to the businessman with affection but, at the same time, with condescension.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial

condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors

He had no sense of the honour done him and his daughter by the lady's condescension;
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House

condescension = the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity

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