Example sentences for: condescension

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

  • Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ) and Joe Klein say that Bradley's aloofness and condescension still hurt his popularity, and Klein predicts that if he is the Democratic nominee his Senate votes against the Gulf War and welfare reform will haunt him.

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

  • Britain's involvement in the Iraqi airstrikes earned it little more than condemnation and condescension.

  • Roswell's writers have clearly studied their teen romantic comedy history, and understand that an adequate representation of the teen condition requires the presence of well-meaning but oppressive adults and friends who try and try but just don't get it, but also an absence of condescension.

  • But the condescension of these ill-wishers is trumped by the contempt of those who say Gates is too coldblooded to put his family first.


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