condescending
adjective
showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority.
uncondescending
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a word derived from
condescending.
Example Sentences
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You see this in the acute rawness of Rhys’ performance, and also in the generous, uncondescending love in Mr. Rogers’ gaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
Second-wave, to be sure, and imperfect, of course, but chilling and complicated and uncondescending to its audience.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2016
Charles Way's adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 story of the little folk who live a parallel existence to us "human beans" is deft and uncondescending.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
His uncondescending depiction of youth culture in “The Social Network” would seem to suggest he is comfortable in worlds unfamiliar to him, but Mr. Sorkin argued for his own terminal squareness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2012
Under Mr. Bryant the Evening Post was an old-fashioned newspaper of uncondescending, uncompromising dignity.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
