condescending
condescendente
definition
verb
take care not to condescend to your reader
show feelings of superiority; be patronizing.
adjective
she thought the teachers were arrogant and condescending
having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority.
translation of 'condescending'
adjective
condescendente
example
I kept expecting him to talk with a snotty, British accent and be very 'condescending' to people.
I had been avoiding calls from her lately because she always seemed to have this 'condescending' attitude toward the way that I'd been changing.
It was because that group poses a threat to the Maori vote that is now currently held by a Government that treats that vote in a 'condescending' , patronising manner.
And if that weren't bad enough, a picture intended to make Stern's 'condescending' message unmistakably clear accompanies the article.
I still find their attitude to us 'condescending' and disgraceful.
And therefore, one has either to ditch the 'condescending' attitude to the electorate, or the social democracy.
But nothing could be more patronising and 'condescending' than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation.
Even the Indians, towards whom some of my fellow countrymen have a 'condescending' attitude, made strenuous efforts to revive the long-dead language of Sanskrit.
It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the 'condescending' and rather snobbish world view of the film.
At a makeshift relief camp in Nagappattinam, India, refugees complained about what they view as the 'condescending' attitude of relief workers.
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a 'condescending' or even contemptuous attitude.
Some faculty members seem to express a 'condescending' , at times almost disdainful, attitude.
Our schools are only just recovering from the 'condescending' attitude that we ought to expect worse standards from the poor.
One deals with the devastation to individuals and families; the other with the 'condescending' attitude Western nations have towards developing ones.
Traders at Thursday's meeting were infuriated by what they described as the 'condescending' attitude of the council's deputy leader and its director of planning.
Most essays include the 'condescending' attitudes of a society that views them as dirty, stupid, invisible or sexually available.
Miller, a middle-aged man with gray blonde hair and a compassionate face, didn't appreciate the 'condescending' attitude of this upstart kid!
Even when youth activism is accepted it is usually in a 'condescending' or patronizing manner when older and more experienced organizers run and co-opt youth efforts.
To be sure, the 'condescending' attitude of the promoters of the project was no help to their cause.
Often times, I believe that these 'condescending' attitudes are at least partly due to misconceptions about Christianity.
‘I'm so sorry I had to turn down that job ’, they'll whisper 'condescendingly' , ‘but it was lovely of you to offer it to me’.
‘They come from parts of the country where jobs are hard to find,’ an acquaintance 'condescendingly' excuses the enlistees.
And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes 'condescendingly' given at certain selected times.
No other writer I know mines the mother lode of what is 'condescendingly' called ‘everyday life’ with such consistently surprising results.
When asked 'condescendingly' by Mayer how many cameras he has now Hughes replies bluntly, ‘Twenty-four.’
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