Both Uses of
condescending
in
The Light of Western Stars
- She divined that all the pride, blue blood, wealth, culture, distinction, all the impersonal condescending persuasion, all the fatuous philanthropy on earth would not avail to turn this man a single hair's-breadth from his downward career to destruction.†
Chpt 8
- Danny regarded Stillwell with lofty condescension.
Chpt 22 *condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity