Example sentences for: condescension

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

  • The latest outburst of Continental condescension comes, sad to say, from an American, albeit one who spends a great deal of time in Paris.

  • By contrast to the condescension of Pleasantville , genuine tenderness for the time could be seen in The Last Picture Show , a 1971 film about real life in 1951.

  • But when her web of lies begins to unravel and he calls her "pretty bird," she rolls her eyes in a gesture at once accepting of his flattery, aware of her deceit, and resentful of his condescension.

  • But such variety does not rule out class condescension.

  • Search for condescension, sentimentality, irony (with separate options for intentional and unintentional), pandering, obscurantism, and puns;


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