Both Uses
condescending
in
Seventeenth Summer
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- Of course," she added with condescension, "it was nice of Art to bring him up, but it wasn't as if I had to have a dateāit's such a short time since I was in Chicago and I know boys down there.... " We sat saying nothing for a while, me thinking about Jack and she thinking about I don't know what.†
Chpt Junecondescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- "Of course," Lorraine went on with pointed condescension, "that depends on whether you're a genius or not."
Chpt July *condescension = treating others as inferiors
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)