Example sentences for: condescension

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

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

  • Our quoted compliment employs the implicit tokenism of the definite article--"the woman"--the condescension of "girl," the dubious virtue of "talented," suggesting that her abilities were something she was born with, not something she earned.

  • These antipathies mellowed into condescension in W.E.B.

  • In other words, you could legitimately state that "The Labour Party represents the interests of organized labor in the U.K." To modify the names of people and organizations to fit a localized spelling style is to show disrespect to the owners of those names, and condescension to your readers.

  • But such variety does not rule out class condescension.


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