All 32 Uses
condescending
in
Little Dorrit
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- The Father of the Marshalsea condescended towards his brother as an amiable, well-meaning man; a private character, who had not arrived at distinction.†
Chpt 1.8condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior
- Submitting himself to the old tone of condescending authority, John Baptist, not at all steady on his legs as yet, advanced and put his hand in his patron's.†
Chpt 1.11condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- But he took the cigars, on Sundays, and was glad to get them; and sometimes even condescended to walk up and down the yard with the donor (who was proud and hopeful then), and benignantly to smoke one in his society.†
Chpt 1.18condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior
- With no less readiness and condescension did he receive attentions from Chivery Senior, who always relinquished his arm-chair and newspaper to him, when he came into the Lodge during one of his spells of duty; and who had even mentioned to him, that, if he would like at any time after dusk quietly to step out into the fore-court and take a look at the street, there was not much to prevent him.†
Chpt 1.18condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Nay, nay,' with the utmost condescension, 'never mind your glove, John.†
Chpt 1.18
- Frederick the free, was so humbled, bowed, withered, and faded; William the bond, was so courtly, condescending, and benevolently conscious of a position; that in this regard only, if in no other, the brothers were a spectacle to wonder at.†
Chpt 1.19condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- She was pretty, and conscious, and rather flaunting; and the condescension with which she put aside the superiority of her charms, and of her worldly experience, and addressed her sister on almost equal terms, had a vast deal of the family in it.†
Chpt 1.20condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- 'You may see him now,' said she, 'if you'll condescend to take a peep.'†
Chpt 1.22 *condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Mrs Plornish here interposed with great condescension, and explained to Mr Baptist.†
Chpt 1.25condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- 'By the political gentlemen who condescend to keep the Circumlocution Office.'†
Chpt 1.26condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Mrs Gowan, however, received him with condescension.†
Chpt 1.26condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- The spotted dogs who went out with the carriages, and who were so associated with splendid equipages that it looked like a condescension in those animals to come out without them, accompanied helpers to and fro on messages.†
Chpt 1.27
- You can again be shown to this gentleman's daughter, Harriet, and kept before her, as a living reminder of her own superiority and her gracious condescension.†
Chpt 1.27
- Swagger and an air of authorised condescension do so much, that Mr Flintwinch had already begun to think this a highly gentlemanly personage.†
Chpt 1.30
- The house was kept in a homely manner, and the condescension of Mr Blandois was infinite.†
Chpt 1.30
- It is not that I have seen my good Amy attentive, and—ha—condescending to my old pensioner—it is not that that hurts me.†
Chpt 1.31condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- with all affability conveying to Mr and Mrs Meagles that general assurance that what they had been doing there, they had been doing at a sacrifice for Mr and Mrs Meagles's good, which they always conveyed to Mr John Bull in their official condescension to that most unfortunate creature.†
Chpt 1.34condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- He patted children on the head like Sir Roger de Coverley going to church, he spoke to people in the background by their Christian names, he condescended to all present, and seemed for their consolation to walk encircled by the legend in golden characters, 'Be comforted, my people!†
Chpt 1.36condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior
- The head of the large retinue, who was gracious but not familiar, appeared by this time to think that he had condescended more than enough.†
Chpt 2.1
- Fanny laughed again, in a manner at once condescending, arch, and affable; and said, putting her arm round her sister in a playfully affectionate way: 'Now tell me, my little pet.†
Chpt 2.6condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- 'Even that affable and condescending ornament of society,' pursued Mr Meagles, 'may misrepresent us, we are afraid.†
Chpt 2.9
- When he had achieved this rush of vivacity and condescension, his Lordship composed himself into the picture after Cuyp, and made a third cow in the group.†
Chpt 2.12condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- And when they saw the Chief Butler looking out at the hall-door in his moments of condescension, the gapers said how rich he looked, and wondered how much money he had in the wonderful Bank.†
Chpt 2.12
- 'He says,' Mrs Plornish then interpreted, addressing her father and Pancks with mild condescension, 'that he has met a bad man, but he hopes the bad man didn't see him—Why,' inquired Mrs Plornish, reverting to the Italian language, 'why ope bad man no see?'†
Chpt 2.13
- Let me make you a cup of tea,' said Mrs Plornish, 'if you'd condescend to take such a thing in the cottage; and many thanks to you, too, I am sure, for bearing us in mind so kindly.'†
Chpt 2.13condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- I hope you will always approve of my proceedings after I have left home and that my sister also may long remain the favoured object of your condescension, Mrs General.'†
Chpt 2.15condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- He therefore condescended to look at the carriage from the Hall-door without frowning at it, and said, in a very handsome way, to one of his men, 'Thomas, help with the luggage.'†
Chpt 2.16condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior
- Mr Dorrit, who had conducted his part of the dialogue with a certain majestic and admiring condescension—much as some people may be seen to conduct themselves in Church, and to perform their part in the service—appeared, on the whole, very well satisfied with himself and with Mrs General too.†
Chpt 2.19condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- They were always forgiving me, in their vanity and condescension.†
Chpt 2.21
- I was resolute in repulsing him; for I had determined when I went there, that no one should pity me or condescend to me.†
Chpt 2.21condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- For the Barnacles, as a group of themselves in creation, had an idea that such distinctions belonged to them; and that when a soldier, sailor, or lawyer became ennobled, they let him in, as it were, by an act of condescension, at the family door, and immediately shut it again.†
Chpt 2.24condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Have I suffered nothing in this room, no deprivation, no imprisonment, that I should condescend at last to contemplate myself in such a glass as that.†
Chpt 2.30condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
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)