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condescending

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con·de·scend·ing  (knd-sndng)
adj.
Displaying a patronizingly superior attitude: "The independent investor's desire to play individual stocks may well worry some market veterans, but that smacks a little of Wall Street's usual condescending attitude toward small investors" Tom Petruno.
conde·scending·ly adv.
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Adj.1.condescendingcondescending - (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
arch, patronising, patronizing
superior - of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior ruler"
condescending
adjective patronizing, lordly, superior, lofty, snooty (informal) snobbish, disdainful, supercilious, toffee-nosed (slang), chiefly Brit. on your high horse (informal)
Translations
Spanish condescending [kɔndɪˈsɛndɪŋ] adj → superior
French condescending [kɔndɪˈsɛndɪŋ] adj → condescendant(e)
German condescending [kɔndɪˈsɛndɪŋ] condescend adj → herablassend
Italian condescending [kɔndɪˈsɛndɪŋ] adj → condiscendente
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Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
I do like it when he looks down at me from the height of his grandeur, or breaks off his learned conversation with me because I'm a fool, or is condescending to me.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Suppose a person of the Fourth Dimension, condescending to visit you, were to say, 'Whenever you open your eyes, you see a Plane (which is of Two Dimensions) and you INFER a Solid (which is of Three); but in reality you also see
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
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