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
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2023
The oxen on other teams condescendingly declared that it would be victory enough if Jang's team finished the ship challenge.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2023
“Mount St. Helens, a lady with a 123-year-old tummyache, erupted with a gigantic volcanic burp,” the Spokesman-Review wrote, condescendingly.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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