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condescending
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  • “Oh, you did so well for someone like you,” she said in a condescending voice.
    condescending = talking down to others
  • Before a cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream.  (source)
    condescend = do something beneath one's dignity
  • "It's only been a day, Isaac," she said, vaguely condescending. "You've gotta give yourself time to heal."  (source)
    condescending = treating him as inferior
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  • ...the sheer exertion it had taken her to live with him for all these years, live with his continual condescension and violence, his faultfinding and meanness.  (source)
    condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors
    standard suffix: 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.
  • Many were smiling, the condescending leer of the hunter for his cornered victim.  (source)
  • Jem condescended to take me to school the first day,  (source)
    condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity
  • GEORGE: Don't you condescend to me!  (source)
    condescend = to treat others as inferior
  • she asked condescendingly, turning halfway toward him.  (source)
    condescendingly = in a manner that treats others as inferiors
  • The spirit of the occasion takes hold of the stately bartender, who condescends to a plate of stewed duck;  (source)
    condescends = as though doing something considered beneath one's position
  • She had always consistently ignored the world of outer aspirants, or had recognized its individual members only when prompted by motives of self-interest; and the very capriciousness of her condescensions had, as Lily was aware, given them special value in the eyes of the persons she distinguished.†  (source)
  • His voice dripped condescension.  (source)
    condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors
  • Her condescending tone shocked Thomas.  (source)
    condescending = treating others as inferior
  • We were stationed in rows, four abreast, and had to wait until the SS control commission under Unter-sturmfiihrer Brandt condescended to come and count us, in case too many of us might be going to escape death.  (source)
    condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity
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