The phrase "condescending for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is behaving in a patronizing or superior manner towards someone else. Example: "Her tone was condescending for someone who was supposed to be a mentor and guide."
Waterman was a son of the gentry and used to say cahnt, but to Patsy his attitude was more condescending for his father was only a janitor.
Her daughter, Amy, "feels it's condescending for women to be isolated in a science or math class," while her son, Peter, believes in an all-girls school because "everybody knows that guys dominate in classes and get all the attention".
Last week, the vice-foreign minister, Fu Ying, said it was "very condescending for the Europeans to come in to tell China that some people are beyond the law".
The verdict of the community centre crowd was essentially, "If I want to go down the pub, I'm perfectly capable of doing so without some do-gooder coming with me … at least they are doing something for us … ruddy condescending" For once I found myself on the side of the naysayers, although I felt ungracious about it.
Affirmative action can also feel condescending for black people, including myself, when others suggest that our accomplishments are due to affirmative action, instead of as a result of intelligence and hard work.
It is condescending for him suggest how NHMC should spend its time and resources.
As for "I, Malvolio," Mary Rose Lloyd, director of artistic programming for the New Victory, said she was so impressed with the play's respect for young audiences — Mr. Crouch doesn't condescend "for a second," she said — that she made a handshake deal with him in Edinburgh.
Both fandoms combine admiration for progressive conviction with a slightly condescending fondness for cranky senior citizens.
By Margaret Talbot Sanders's young fans combine admiration for his progressive conviction with a slightly condescending fondness for cranky old people.
When Perry plummeted, Newt soared, largely on the strength of channelling the base's basest biases: fierce hatred of the mainstream media, condescending disdain for the freeloading, work-averse poor, and racially tinged contempt for the allegedly secular-socialist, anti-religious (though Islam-friendly), Kenyan anti-colonialist, teleprompter-dependent "food-stamp President".
What is shameful and condescending is for one reviewer to call out another reviewer over what is, in the last analysis, merely a difference of opinion.
