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

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024