Example sentences for: condescending

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

  • To be sure, Gore was demagogic, gimmicky, and condescending at times--he can't help it.

  • On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.

  • The workbooks exacerbate this condescending simple-mindedness.

  • 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.

  • He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.


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