condescending

comparative more condescending · superlative most condescending

1. Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.

   Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child!

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   The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.

   1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70

   As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".

   2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

   Synonyms: patronizing

plural condescendings

1. An act of condescension.

   Is it the condescendings of a great one that we see in Christ? "I am among you as one that serveth," says He.

   1886, J. G. Bellett, The Evangelists: papers on the four gospels, volume 1, page 39

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of condescend