All 6 Uses of
condescending
in
Great Expectations
- Estella, for her part, likewise treated me as before, except that she did not condescend to speak.†
p. 93.9 *condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.†
p. 100.1
- I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor society as this, I am sure I do!†
p. 108.1
- I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.†
p. 155.9condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension.†
p. 197.7
- "You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart,—if that has anything to do with my memory."†
p. 251.3condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity