NOUN
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affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank
the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable
How To Use condescendingness In A Sentence
- One finds the same complacency, the same condescendingness, in a far higher degree in the essays of Mr. A.C. Benson. The Art of Letters
- He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency -- therefore of condescendingness -- therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature -- when he begins to moralize about time and the universe. The Art of Letters
