Sentence examples for to be condescending from inspiring English sources

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"We didn't want it to be condescending.

"But I didn't want to be condescending either.

Personally, I find "sweetie" and names like it to be condescending and oddly intimate.

Well, all children arc fascinated by servants' talk, and I don't mean to be condescending.

A basic requirement for success, Mr. Heilbut argued, was not to be condescending.

"But 'Sesame Street' has a general tendency to be condescending, and it's getting worse at it.

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Edwards seems to have been raised by folks who know what it feels like to be condescended to.

Snow was not going to be condescended by Ferguson in this 11-minute discussion about politics, the media and leadership.

"I realized I wasn't cut from the cloth that allowed me to be condescended to by people who read less than I do," he explained.

It presumes that women don't like sports or play video games and need to be condescended into technology purchase decisions by their male partners as they oh-so-certainly couldn't come to those conclusions on their own!

We don't need to be condescended to by activists or people who don't live or vote here.

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