Both Uses of
condescending
in
The 100, by Morgan
- "Just because my father's in charge of the Council doesn't mean I get to break a three-hundred-year rule," he said, allowing just a shade of condescension to darken his tone.†
p. 15.7 *condescension = the act of treating others as inferiors; or the act of doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity
- Safe enough for the hundred convicted criminals who were going to die anyway," the Chancellor said, his voice a mix of condescension and disbelief.†
p. 17.9
Definition:
treating others as inferior; or doing something considered beneath one's position or dignity