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"condescension to" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically refers to an attitude or action of patronizing someone or looking down on them in a derogatory manner. Example: Despite her condescension to her colleague's ideas, Sarah's team chose to implement them and they turned out to be successful.
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Was there imperial condescension to be found among the innocentisti?
To modern ears, it smacks of condescension to the plebs.
Phillips's condescension to the anti-Freudians has not endeared him to them.
Afterward she was increasingly angered by masculine condescension to female talent.
Condescension to the mass audience and its pleasures is not cool, or fashionable or politically correct.
Maybe it's ironic condescension to people who are less than savvy.
They drop their guard completely and allow the condescension to ooze through to the camera.
Concession to these expectations is always a form of condescension, to reader and viewer alike.
Bob Diamond's condescension to the Treasury select committee demonstrated the ignominy into which parliament has fallen.
All he did was invite Clegg with lofty condescension to sign up to his own manifesto.
The nostalgia in "Hairspray" may be giddy, but it's free of condescension to the characters or to the period.
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