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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His internalization of Richard’s disability seems complete, accurate and uncondescending.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
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
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
