condescending

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcondescendingcon‧de‧scend‧ing /ˌkɒndɪˈsendɪŋ◂ $ ˌkɑːn-/ adjective RUDE/IMPOLITEbehaving as though you think you are better, more intelligent, or more important than other people – used to show disapproval SYN patronizing Professor Hutter’s manner is extremely condescending. —condescendingly adverbExamples from the Corpuscondescending• Fourteen percent claim the men have a condescending attitude.• She'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending, heartless, authoritarian attitude.• Instead they dispensed a condescending homily.• The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.• Watts seems to have kept a copy of Maria Edgeworth's condescending letter.• The Prince smirked and Gaveston turned, for the first time acknowledging their presence with a condescending sneer.• English reviewers tended to take a condescending view of American writers.

单词	condescending
释义	condescending From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcondescendingcon‧de‧scend‧ing /ˌkɒndɪˈsendɪŋ◂ $ ˌkɑːn-/ adjective RUDE/IMPOLITEbehaving as though you think you are better, more intelligent, or more important than other people – used to show disapproval SYN patronizing Professor Hutter’s manner is extremely condescending. —condescendingly adverbExamples from the Corpuscondescending• Fourteen percent claim the men have a condescending attitude.• She'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending, heartless, authoritarian attitude.• Instead they dispensed a condescending homily.• The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.• Watts seems to have kept a copy of Maria Edgeworth's condescending letter.• The Prince smirked and Gaveston turned, for the first time acknowledging their presence with a condescending sneer.• English reviewers tended to take a condescending view of American writers.
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