Example sentences for: condescending

How can you use “condescending” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There was that wonderful episode early last year where she's appallingly condescending to an old friend, the wife of a restaurateur who's been burned out of his restaurant.

  • The most recent column ("Betty and Monica") makes a much-needed point about the subtly condescending nature of traditional journalism's attitude toward successful blacks (a column in the future might explore the press' similar attitude toward the Southern population of the country).

  • Actually run top target: Cheryl Mills or, more precisely, condescending reactions to Cheryl Mills.

  • Self-educated, poor beyond imagining, John Clare experienced a brief, condescending vogue as England's "Peasant Poet," at a time when illiteracy was a norm for England's rural workers, and poets were expected to come from higher social ranks.

  • Certainly some of his definitions--really, short moral tracts--cannot fail to arouse a condescending smile today, so quaint do they seem across a distance of 165 years.


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