What is "condescending"

Usage examples of "condescending".

Was Leonid being condescending, the way he looked over her intrepid little plane?

After the condescending surprise, nonrecognition, and praise, from those who were not themselves dressed up, the young people decided that their costumes were so good that they ought to be shown elsewhere.

Johnson laughed, and condescending to trifle in the same mode of conceit, suggested Dr. MOSS.

Gareth Swales sat at his ease, conversing with the peer as an equal, condescending graciously to the planter and commiserating with the civil servant on his run of luck.

However, as you are so condescending to take up with the best I have, do, Susan, get a fire in the Rose this minute.

He appeared to address condescending words to him from an immeasurable height.

Dimmler, who had joined the young folk with a mildly condescending smile but now spoke as quietly and seriously as they.

And he is so condescending to the son he so egregiously deludes that you might suppose him the most virtuous of parents.

A policeman has already walked up to the room, and walked down again to the door, where he stands like a tower, only condescending to see the boys at his base occasionally.

The same wan day peeps in at Sir Leicester pardoning the repentant country in a majestically condescending dream.

I don't want anybody's pat on the back, no condescending applause, thank you, but I came all the way here and I can contribute.

Any man endowed with Rafe's monumental degree of arrogant self-mastery would naturally be chagrined by the condescending assumption that he did not have complete control of his psychic talent.

I tell him that I am Fragico (Italian), but he turns his back upon me and goes into his house, the door of which he shuts without condescending to listen to me.

That is, he'd been enjoying it up until that very moment when he saw that Ammi was not joking: There was Peez, as big as life and twice as condescending.

It was not the embrace of his beloveds, not even the loving if condescending hand of his zhavey…but it was warm, and that was somehow more than he had expected.