condescend Betydning & definition

Eksempler på condescend

• In condescending he refuses to take his inferiors for granted, but suggests instead that their labor is something to be earned.

• At the same time, historians of political thought have not condescended to deal with the political facts.

• Furthermore, there is a purism in the field that is condescending toward texts that irreverently mix languages.

• The pedagogical approach adopted does not shy away from these, or develop a paternalistic or condescending attitude to their difficulty.

• Informing us of such an end need not be condescending.

• In the competition with other fields, some condescending view by mathematicians for example vis-a-vis physicists can occasionally be noted, as partly in the last quotation.

• To condescend demonstrated an easy-going flexibility of temperament, a willingness to compromise.

• Condescension came primarily to signify self-promotion at another's cost; to condescend was to assert one's own superiority in a way that degraded others.