How to Use condescending in a Sentence

condescending

adjective

• His comments were offensive and condescending to us.
• Notes: Yes, this question has a condescending tinge to it.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2016
• The Hoosiers in recent years have been a mirage, is my point, but let’s be (condescending and) clear: A mirage is a step in the right direction.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2017
• The post was taken down after users called it sexist and condescending.
  — Fox News, 28 Nov. 2019
• Steve King got up and was pleasantly condescending to them.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 5 Aug. 2014
• Aubrey Plaza has made valiant efforts to backtrack on what might seem like the film's overly condescending view of social media users.
  — Julia Black, Esquire, 11 Aug. 2017
• Vote against him where needed, but sound less condescending.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 8 June 2017
• This is not meant in a condescending way, so don’t go there, but understand this: For the Pacers, Tyreke Evans is an absolute home run in free agency.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2018
• This could feel like a condescending attempt to end up on the right side of history, but doesn’t—the characters are never reduced to props in a you-go-girl power ballad.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
• Critics tore it apart for its tone-deafness and condescending spirit.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 21 May 2017
• To me, [that] idea is just as condescending and reductive as stereotyping them in a negative way.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• So often when fashion brands talk about the people who make their clothes, the tone is vaguely condescending and a chance for brands to pat themselves on the back, in part because wages are often a talking point.
  — Steve Dool, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
• The man addressed me over the cliff of his shoulder—talked down to me in the same condescending way Mister Hughes explained polynomials and hypotenuses.
  — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
• Pay no attention to your condescending friends and relatives unlucky enough to live in northern climes.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Yet thanks in part to the commission’s condescending response to journalists’ inquiries, the story has gathered pace.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Writing critics off as a gang of right-wing troglodytes, the standard tactic of many of Pope Francis’s defenders, is not just derisive and condescending.
  — Francis X. Maier, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
• But the players refused to accept this condescending logic.
  — Tate Royer, The Denver Post, 14 June 2019
• To not recognize that or, worse, to disrespect it, is both condescending and simple-minded.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• Despite having sold more 50 million albums worldwide, Nickelback has been the subject of scathing and condescending takes from all corners of the internet over the years.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2018
• There’s a difference between sharing in another culture and making use of it in a condescending way.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Even those conservative professors who are warm toward the Tea Party are warm with a condescending edge.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2016
• Having introduced himself to viewers with a voiceover at the picture's start, Huang enjoys pointing things out to us — not in a condescending way, but as a considerate host would.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
• The dinged buyers are always tagged as one of two things: stingy (or downright withholding) come tip season or generally rude and condescending.
  — Tom Acitelli, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2013
• The slow, easy, invariably honest and never condescending words that come out of his mouth, and the way Hanks invites you into Rogers’ odd but convincing world, provide the film’s greatest pleasures.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
• Beyond that, though, my father’s motive in taking the exam cold was surely to prove how useless, how far beneath him, was Bob’s condescending notion of tutelage.
  — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
• Mbakam’s images are also permeated by the life of the mall’s corridor and, in effect, by Belgian life at large—notably, the cold and condescending gazes of white passersby directed at the salon’s staff and clients.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2019
• Will her doctor give her a condescending lecture, or gently persuade her to cut her alcohol intake?
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Critics say the segment ended up stereotyping Africans in a condescending manner.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• What this condescending message chiefly does is deny to the faith a sense of inner dynamism and enterprise—exactly what is needed in finding a modern future.
  — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2018
• Discuss the reasoning behind such recaps, and what could seem condescending becomes a stopgap.
  — Gwen Moran, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2020

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