How to Use condescending in a Sentence

condescending

adjective
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  • His comments were offensive and condescending to us.
  • The post was taken down after users called it sexist and condescending.
    — Fox News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Notes: Yes, this question has a condescending tinge to it.
    — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
  • Steve King got up and was pleasantly condescending to them.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Aug. 2014
  • Vote against him where needed, but sound less condescending.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 8 June 2017
  • Critics tore it apart for its tone-deafness and condescending spirit.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 21 May 2017
  • But the players refused to accept this condescending logic.
    — Tate Royer, The Denver Post, 14 June 2019
  • Pay no attention to your condescending friends and relatives unlucky enough to live in northern climes.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • I always imagined publishers were rather snarky and condescending and made a point of crabbing one's work, but he didn't a bit.
    — Elizabeth Bowen, letter, 19 Jan. 1923
  • Aubrey Plaza has made valiant efforts to backtrack on what might seem like the film's overly condescending view of social media users.
    — Julia Black, Esquire, 11 Aug. 2017
  • There’s a difference between sharing in another culture and making use of it in a condescending way.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
  • To me, [that] idea is just as condescending and reductive as stereotyping them in a negative way.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • His upbringing is often referred to in condescending terms in media stories.
    — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Will her doctor give her a condescending lecture, or gently persuade her to cut her alcohol intake?
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Discuss the reasoning behind such recaps, and what could seem condescending becomes a stopgap.
    — Gwen Moran, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Yet thanks in part to the commission’s condescending response to journalists’ inquiries, the story has gathered pace.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • So often when fashion brands talk about the people who make their clothes, the tone is vaguely condescending and a chance for brands to pat themselves on the back, in part because wages are often a talking point.
    — Steve Dool, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Critics say the segment ended up stereotyping Africans in a condescending manner.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Such promotion was seen from then on as condescending and ineffective.
    — Andre M. Archie, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But not this narcissistic condescending temper tantrum throwing know it all.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 13 Dec. 2019
  • That doesn't mean taking on a condescending tone or addressing those with dementia in an undignified manner.
    — Episcopal Retirement Services, Cincinnati.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • What this condescending message chiefly does is deny to the faith a sense of inner dynamism and enterprise—exactly what is needed in finding a modern future.
    — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
  • To not recognize that or, worse, to disrespect it, is both condescending and simple-minded.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
  • And following his every move, make a condescending chuckle and/or whistle taps.
    — A.j. Jacobs, Esquire, 30 May 2006
  • The man addressed me over the cliff of his shoulder—talked down to me in the same condescending way Mister Hughes explained polynomials and hypotenuses.
    — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Even those conservative professors who are warm toward the Tea Party are warm with a condescending edge.
    — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2016
  • This could feel like a condescending attempt to end up on the right side of history, but doesn’t—the characters are never reduced to props in a you-go-girl power ballad.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • The dinged buyers are always tagged as one of two things: stingy (or downright withholding) come tip season or generally rude and condescending.
    — Tom Acitelli, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2013
  • My grandfather never spoke, and my grandmother was severe and condescending.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 May 2018
  • The Hoosiers in recent years have been a mirage, is my point, but let’s be (condescending and) clear: A mirage is a step in the right direction.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2017

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