Example sentences for: condescending

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

  • The workbooks exacerbate this condescending simple-mindedness.

  • But when I got off the bus and ruminated on it, I realized that was a condescending and stupid reaction.

  • 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.

  • Schoolchildren are guided into, first, O and, then, A Levels, corresponding to the School and Higher Certificates of my own English youth; these are set from Cambridge and incline, to my mind, to an all too often condescending leaning to local idiom-worship, from which most BeeWees want to free themselves.

  • Unlike most films about evangelicalism, it is not a condescending "put-down of redneck religion" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The most vigorous plaudits go to Duvall's performance; critics predict that it will revive his career from a slump and win him an Oscar nomination.


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