Sample Sentences for
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
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    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
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    "Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go," I said. "1. Doesn't pun on your disability," Isaac said. "2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. ... "3. No condescending voice." "How are you doing, sweetie?" I asked, cloying. "I'm going to stick you with a needle now. There might be a little ouchie."  (source)
    condescending = treating others as inferior
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    His voice dripped condescension.  (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.
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    Her condescending tone shocked Thomas.  (source)
    condescending = treating others as inferior
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    Jem condescended to take me to school the first day,  (source)
    condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity
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    GEORGE: Don't you condescend to me!  (source)
    condescend = to treat others as inferior
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    "Well, sir," said Japp condescendingly, "you shall be in it too. I can tell you, it's something of a feather in your cap to have inside knowledge of a case like this."  (source)
    condescendingly = a manner that treats others as inferiors
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    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
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    In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs. Norris that she would be a good girl; in vain did Lady Bertram smile and make her sit on the sofa with herself and pug, and vain was even the sight of a gooseberry tart towards giving her comfort; she could scarcely swallow two mouthfuls before tears interrupted her, and sleep seeming to be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed.†  (source)
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    said Ford, patting the blubbery arm clamped round his neck in friendly condescension,  (source)
    condescension = the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
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    Many were smiling, the condescending leer of the hunter for his cornered victim.  (source)
    condescending = a manner that treats others as inferiors
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    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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