Example Sentences

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To providers themselves, however, this is condescending, victim-blaming nonsense.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

While I applaud the work of this group, I’m deflated by the terminology, which is condescending.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2021

“So Dostoevsky writing about Raskolnikov living in a threadbare garret is condescending to that guy, ipso facto? I don’t buy that.”

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2018

And the writing is condescending to Ms. Schaal’s character.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2015

Your Grace knows there are many instances in life in which the most effectual way of conferring a favor is condescending to accept one.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)