How to Use condescension in a Sentence

condescension

noun
  • Perhaps worst of all, the whole thing has an air of oily condescension.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The class condescension created by the myth that art was for the rich was now challenged.
    Kealey Boyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Like As If, there was no condescension from those behind the show.
    Alim Kheraj, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • With some of them, there is a lot of condescension and nastiness.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
  • There’s no condescension here, just talent, and a lot of it on display.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
  • There was sneering condescension, of course, but there were also some honest attempts to track the roots of the look.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • The debate crackled with condescension as the two men sparred, reflecting the close nature of the race.
    Katie Glueck, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The use of a girlish nickname smacks of a condescension that the author clearly doesn’t wish to imply.
    Melanie Kirkpatrick, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • That condescension, even if well-meaning, corrodes the chain of trust.
    Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 12 June 2021
  • There’s a whiff of that famous Marie savior complex again, along with a good dose of condescension.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The storm of criticism that followed arrived with a mix of fierce anger and lofty condescension.
    Gregory Krieg, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The filmmakers urge us to look at them with condescension.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
  • To say these are the kinds of shows that will light a fire under you in the kitchen would be an overstatement bordering on condescension for many of us.
    Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Her accent — English by way of the West Indies — drips with scorn and condescension.
    Cate Young, Vulture, 25 May 2021
  • Penn’s portraits of Africans and New Guineans risk condescension.
    Bruce Handy, Vanities, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Even the most innocuous new-mom queries can be met with condescension and outrage.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2022
  • So yes, she’s got some marvelous one-liners and just drips with condescension.
    Caroline Framke, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The most common form condescension takes, Jackson says, is through words.
    USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • Bertie is wary and defensive, fending off Liam at first with smarm and condescension.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • Granik presents this grange and trailer park culture without a trace of condescension.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2018
  • So perhaps the condescension has been completely beaten out of the Longhorns.
    Andy Staples, SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The condescension came from the man who supposedly was in her corner.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Ted’s condescension hung in the air like the stench from a cat box in an apartment with 40 cats belonging to an elderly women who had just been found dead.
    Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • It's done with such a tinge of condescension or derision with women.
    ELLE, 28 Mar. 2022
  • But the old spirit of noblesse oblige was often troubled by a certain condescension, a sense that rules are for the little people.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
  • This is a clap of incredulity, maybe even condescension.
    SELF, 26 May 2019
  • And on Tuesday, Spicer managed to clear even his own high bar for condescension in the service of incompetence.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 28 Mar. 2017
  • This is where condescension, or fetishism, or novelty begins to creep in.
    Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
  • In recent weeks, the media have treated him with condescension.
    Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • She’s been incredibly influential on all kinds of musicians over the last 50 years, and yet there’s almost nobody who’s been subjected to more scorn, derision, and condescension.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024

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