'in condescending' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something as being done in a patronizing or arrogant manner. For example: He spoke in condescending tones, making her feel belittled.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union left the US as the world's only imperial power, some western policy-makers view Moscow in condescending terms - as though Moscow needs the west more than vice versa.
The common attitude is one of slight mockery, expressed in condescending jokes about the Gurkhas' supposed naivety and unruly wives and children".They are not connected to all Nepalis, but they are part of Nepali identity and whenever a Nepali does well abroad we are always proud," says Gunaraj Luitel, a writer.
"Utopian capitalism," he says, "can look pretty good in a time of disillusionment and collapse," and conservative leaders have duped the gullible masses — the masses are often described in condescending terms in the author's writings — by posing as representatives of the common folk and equating free markets with "the very essence of freedom".
Instead, they are couching their opposition in condescending and arrogant messages like, "Take it from us, these foods have been tested and are safe and this is not necessary", and fear-mongering messages like, "This will drive up your food costs".
She's doing the same thing that interviewers like Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Lauer have been doing for years, bringing him on their television shows and addressing him in condescending tones, then treating him like an insane person for being riled by it.
She's accused of cherry picking in condescending tones.
He took me to this dollar taco shack, and said, in this condescending tone, "In order to get to the nice places, you gotta earn your keep".
"I understand that they're inspecting a lot of places and they may come up against places where condescending language is used in a condescending manner.
Throughout her tenure in the White House, Laura Bush was often described in faintly condescending terms as an old-fashioned first lady, as "the perfect wife," as the anti-Hillary who "knows her place" and wanted only to stand by her man.
In contrast, Robert Bork's responses to the committee were delivered in a condescending tone befitting a professor lecturing a truculent student, and he made no attempt to hide his opposition to abortion rights and privacy rights in general.
The icily elegant Kommandant, Col. Werner Visser (Marcel Iures), agrees in a condescending gesture.
