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condescendingly

[kahn-duh-send-ing-lee]

adverb

  1. in a condescending or patronizing way.



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He condescendingly calls her “young lady” while attempting to impress on her the seriousness of her mortality risk.

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Ray also provides kind, suggestive tips with a guiding hand, never condescendingly and always with a smile.

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Reichardt and Hong have often been classified, sometimes condescendingly, as art-house miniaturists, but the worlds they create and invite us into are too enveloping, too precise in their details, to feel anything less than enormous.

The oxen on other teams condescendingly declared that it would be victory enough if Jang's team finished the ship challenge.

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Kushner comes across as an overconfident tyro who condescendingly feeds uninformed advice to professionals with far more wisdom and expertise than he will ever have.

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ˌcondeˈscendingcondescension