Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: condescending
IPA transcription: [k,ɑndɪs'ɛndɪŋ]
Pronunciations of condescending
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing, patronising
    Meaning: (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
Usage examples
  • The boy looked sarcastically at his teacher. There was something positively condescending in his expression.
  • He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.
  • Or, with affability and condescending sweetness, made easy by internal delight at thine own wondrous virtue, didst thou give five dollars to balance five hundred spent on thyself?
  • After gazing a while at the palace picture, during which her ambitious pride rose and rose, she turned yet again in condescending mood, and honored the home picture with one stare more.
  • You have always been so kind, so gracious and so condescending to me that I can only thank you, thank you, thank you," answered Brandon, almost shyly; not daring to lift his eyes to hers.
  • And yet, under these disadvantages, he seemed, as a matter of course, to treat the rest of the company with the cool and condescending politeness which implies a real, or imagined, superiority over those towards whom it is used.
  • Surrounded as we are by so many different minds, characters, and interests, how can we live in peace for a single day if we are not condescending, accommodating, yielding, self-denying, ready to renounce even a good project, and to take no notice of those faults and shortcomings which are beyond our power or duty to correct?
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fritz the Cat (film), License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ulysses (poem), License CC BY-SA 4.0