condescend
verb (used without object)
to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.
condescends
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present tense formof condescend (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It never condescends to Sisters Barnes and Paxton and they always have sound rebuttals at the ready; they are also observant, smart and canny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
In the American psyche, it’s the Miss Millie story line from Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” about someone so blinded by a conception of her own virtue that it doesn’t register when she condescends.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
"Three 'verys'. Wow," he condescends, then signals her to lay her pitch on him.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
Hopkins, a graduate of Winchester school and Cambridge University, condescends to his neighbors in Beadle.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
There is a manly passion in his playing that never condescends to coquette with the submissive strings; it wailed enough that night for anything, and yet never degenerated into imitation.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
