adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
patronizing/condescending (= showing that you think you are more important or intelligent than someone )
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complaints about patronising attitudes towards women
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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English reviewers tended to take a condescending view of American writers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fourteen percent claim the men have a condescending attitude.
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Instead they dispensed a condescending homily.
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She'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending , heartless, authoritarian attitude.
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The forelock-touching peasant is still around in print, and always good for a condescending laugh.
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The Prince smirked and Gaveston turned, for the first time acknowledging their presence with a condescending sneer.
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Watts seems to have kept a copy of Maria Edgeworth's condescending letter.