All 5 Uses of
condescending
in
Kim
- Then the wind brought the tune: We crave your condescension To tell you what we know Of marching in the Mulligan Guards To Sligo Port below!†
Chpt 5
- "If your Honour condescending giving my boy best educations Xavier" (I suppose that's St Xavier's in Partibus) "in terms of our conversation dated in your tent 15th instant" (a business-like touch there!†
Chpt 6
- There would be new boys to condescend to,
Chpt 9 *condescend = treat as inferiors
- 'These cattle'—she did not condescend to look at them—'are thine for so long as thou shalt need.'†
Chpt 14
- He has sold horses all about here, and he says old lady is pukka [thorough] old lady and would not condescend to such ungentlemanly things.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(condescending) treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity