The Only Use
condescending
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)
- and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension,
p. 41.1condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors
Definitions:
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(1)
(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)