All 4 Uses of
condescending
in
The Thief, by Turner
- "He's probably septic," Ambiades warned, teasing me in a tone just a little more condescending than the one he used on Sophos.†
Chpt 3condescending = treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- I lay there while the magus directed the unpacking of the horses and listened as Ambiades carefully and condescendingly instructed Sophos in the construction of a cooking fire.†
Chpt 4condescendingly = in a manner treating others as inferior
- His voice dripped condescension.
Chpt 5 *condescension = a manner that treats others as inferiors
- To break the silence, he at last condescended to ask me to tell him the story of Eugenides and the thunderbolts.†
Chpt 8condescended = did something considered beneath one's position or dignity; or treated others as inferior