The word "condescend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of someone behaving superior to another person, often in a patronizing manner. For example: "The senior executive rudely condescended to the junior employee, causing her to become extremely embarrassed."
One is that it flatters its current audience by inviting them to condescend to audiences past.
The judge said that "...the documents themselves and the admissions made out of court cry out for an explanation...and [Mr Ecclestone] does not condescend to give one..."....
Liberals like to hear MSNBC's Rachel Maddow condescend to conservatives.
She did not preen, bluster, condescend or intimidate; instead, she just spoke to her viewers, in much the same unfussy, confident way that Elizabeth David did on the page.
It implies that Christ's humanity is indeed real not only in itself but also for God, since it brought him to death on the cross, and that the salvation and redemption of humanity can be accomplished by God alone hence the necessity for him to condescend to death, which holds humanity captive.
The Class (15) François Bégaudeau, a former teacher, plays M Marin, the kind, beleaguered teacher trying desperately to engage with, not condescend to, and inspire his class of unruly 15-year-olds in Laurent Cantet's formidable drama.
Early warning: How Calvin saw trouble ahead A febrile, politically driven culture produces insubstantial courtiers like the technical director, Michael Emenalo, whose disastrously distant interview on Mourinho's exit, which seemingly sought to scapegoat a coach he did not condescend to name, is understood to have alarmed club officials.
Jellicoe isn't a character one can condescend to the way Stevens is, and no one in his right mind would trust her with a pet.
The fight is hard and the assessment of progress is not easy, but it would be understandable for a modern oncologist to celebrate recent progress and condescend to the knowledge and the therapies of his forebears.
Emotionally, Edwards, no matter how spectacularly well he does, seems to dwell on the other side of a divide from people who have had special advantages, who condescend or demean.
The Pontiff did not condescend to join in this discussion, and the inquisitors probably did not invite him to.
