All 9 Uses of
condescending
in
Of Human Bondage
- Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity.†
Chpt 23-24condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Philip was somewhat overpowered by the young gentleman's condescension.†
Chpt 35-36 *condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Will you condescend to do a few sums in simple addition today?†
Chpt 37-38condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- If you'd condescended to come and sit near me I could have given you some hints.†
Chpt 41-42condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior
- And now he said: "Oh, well, if you feel like that about it I wonder you condescend to come out with me at all.'†
Chpt 61-62condescend = to treat others as inferior; or to do something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- From commerce with students and poor people he had the patronising air, and from dealing always with the sick he had the healthy man's jovial condescension, which some consultants achieve as the professional manner.†
Chpt 81-82condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- The H.P. with whom Philip came in contact was a dapper little man, excessively conscious of his importance: he treated the clerks with condescension and patently resented the familiarity of older students who had been his contemporaries and did not use him with the respect he felt his present position demanded.†
Chpt 81-82
- Philip found that he was less shy with these people than he had ever been with others; he felt not exactly sympathy, for sympathy suggests condescension; but he felt at home with them.†
Chpt 81-82
- With harmless vanity he played the fine gentleman among them, and there was a touch of condescension in his familiarity.†
Chpt 117-118