The queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Your condescension is outweighed by your stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Miranda Rights] Reference
"Do you know the meaning of the word condescension?". From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
The contrary to this condescension is reproved, Jam. ii. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Your condescension is as irritating as Ms. Coulter’s remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’] Reference
You may have noticed that elite condescension is one thing lots of folks dislike about the left!. From Wordnik.com. [David Roberts: Introducing 'Climate Hawks'] Reference
Some of the older white Cubans retained racist feelings that were conveyed to us with a certain condescension and stiffness. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White] Reference
With all this, Berendt has fashioned a Baedeker to Savannah that, while it flirts with condescension, is always contagiously affectionate. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Summary and book reviews of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.] Reference
(and BTW I ` m quite poor myself so no condescension is implied) 12: 02 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Don`t Spoil The Subprime] Reference
It was apparent to her that his condescension was a marvel. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie, a Girl of the Streets] Reference
Or maybe get into producing TV, where their condescension is the reigning executive temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Why, woman, it is condescension in my son to so much as look at your niece -- condescension, that is what it is. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
Idly supreme, Portlossie the upper looked down in condescension, that is in half concealed contempt, on the ant heap below it. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
It’s cute how you put “employee” and “Virginia Quarterly Review” in condescension-quotes, as if neither actually exist. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Great New Yorker issue.] Reference
If you think so little of the civil rights movement, JS, you’d do well not to let others know by putting it in condescension quotes. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - “My lucky stars, a negro!”] Reference
The president's condescension is universal. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's view from Olympus] Reference
The thinly veiled condescension is chilling. From Wordnik.com. [A Water Park, but No Pool - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
There are times when condescension is called for!. From Wordnik.com. [On life, activism, and TV writers getting it right. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Yami, do you think there may have been some kind of condescension. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference
Was I displaying the British national characteristic of 'condescension'?. From Wordnik.com. [Night (not) in the Parthenon Museum 2] Reference
Really, is there any occasion appropriate for that kind of condescension?. From Wordnik.com. [More Hating Meetings] Reference
So, I'm sure that there that kind of condescension that we're going to have to deal with in dealing with him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2003] Reference
Of course, that argument smacks of the same kind of condescension Ann is accusing him of in this brilliant piece of work. From Wordnik.com. ["Wearing an overcoat but gloveless on a frigid morning, Mr. Obama invoked a speech Lincoln gave here..."] Reference
There is absolutely no room for that kind of condescension and that attitude from a congressman to one of his constituents. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2007] Reference
7, 8. which condescension is illustrated as often in raising the worthy poor and needy to honor (compare 1Sa 2: 8; Ps 44: 25). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Trust me, their condescension is mind-boggling. From Wordnik.com. [Do not build it. Not here. « BuzzMachine] Reference
If you had read mine you would know I don't do 'condescension'. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
If they then insist on labeling that 'condescension', so be it. From Wordnik.com. [Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"Oh," said he, rather chapfallen, "your condescension is a lesson for angels. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
It was raither a stately kin'ness than that condescension which is the vice o 'Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Falconer] Reference
"I do not understand it in OUR work," said the Cardinal, "There can be no 'condescension' in saving the lost.". From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Christian] Reference
See how he smiles back at her with that lascivious condescension which is all that a god's love can be for a mortal girl!. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
They spoke, after Finnock's introduction, with a cool kind of condescension that irritated, and, to a certain extent, humiliated me. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Gift. A Novel.] Reference
Now by doing so, first I give a pattern in my own person of the kind of condescension or lowliness to which I would persuade my people. From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
Excuse me your condescension is a tad misplaced. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Shifting Gears For General Election, Recruiting Hillary Staffers] Reference
At the same time, he had to put up with white condescension. From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
And isn't there an element of condescension in appropriating them for our purposes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots Of Rock] Reference
Their compassion is 98 percent condescension: They know best how to pursue our happiness. From Wordnik.com. [So, The Culprits Are Now The Cure?] Reference
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