condescension

How To Use condescension In A Sentence

• She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval. Jezebel
• Those who have it, use it, with condescension and casual disdain for those on the receiving end.
• Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
• French agricultural naturalists, whose perspective was both continental and philosophic, treated the British inquiry with careful condescension.
• But wish what condescension and gentleness is this done! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• But if a prince shall deign to be familiar, and to converse with those upon whom he might trample, shall his condescension therefore unking him, and his familiarity rob him of his royalty? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
• These phrases, and the condescension dripping from the article generally, can easily be removed without losing anything. The Volokh Conspiracy » Shedding Light on the AZ Immigration Law
• His schoolmasterish manner, combined with the unmistakable tone of condescension, were enough to make a more hot-tempered man see red. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
• That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us.
• Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension.