condescendingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
“I’ll take a picture of you,” he says condescendingly.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
The Toymaker condescendingly calls them handmaidens but really, they’re midwives.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2023
The Times, in 1926, described it amiably if condescendingly as “a bit of Japan translated to the shores of California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021
She patted my arm condescendingly and reached for a length of plastic tubing that hung nearby; it was connected to a pipe that ran up the ladder to the surface.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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