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Condescend   /kˌɑndɪsˈɛnd/   Listen
Condescend

verb
(past & past part. condescended; pres. part. condescending)
1.
Behave in a patronizing and condescending manner.
2.
Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.  Synonyms: deign, descend.
3.
Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way.  Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop.
4.
Treat condescendingly.  Synonyms: patronise, patronize.






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"Condescend" Quotes from Famous Books



... for all her simplicity, she must have been appalled. He stood before her on the appointed day outwardly calmer than she had ever seen him before. And this very calmness, that scrupulous attitude which he felt bound in honour to assume then and for ever, unless she would condescend to make a sign at some future time, added to the heaviness of her heart innocent of the ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad

... across old Dr. McDowells—thinks the world of me, does the doctor. He's a man that keeps himself to himself, and well he may, for he knows that he's got a reputation that covers the whole earth—he won't condescend to open himself out to many people, but lord bless you, he and I are just like brothers; he won't let me go to a hotel when I'm in the city—says I'm the only man that's company to him, and I don't know but there's some truth in it, too, ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 2. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... them, Brahman said to Narayana, 'O Lord, condescend to grant the gods strength to churn ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - Translated into English Prose - Adi Parva (First Parva, or First Book) • Kisari Mohan Ganguli (Translator)

... accustomed to say "that the want of fortune was a crime which he could never get over." Both in temperament and education Collingwood was superior to Nelson. The former knew that he had done and was capable of doing great deeds, but he would never condescend to seek for an honour reward; while Nelson, who also knew when he had distinguished himself in the national interest, expected to be rewarded, and on occasions when it was too tardily withheld, he became peevish, whimpered a good deal about his illtreatment, and on more than one occasion ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman

... fortune, he was knighted; the circumstances of it are these: He had, by his gaming and extravagance, so embarrassed his affairs, that he courted a rich widow in order to retrieve them; but she being an ambitious woman, would not condescend to marry him, unless he could make her a lady, which he was obliged to do by the purchase of a knighthood; and this appears in a Consolatary Epistle to captain Julian, from the duke of Buckingham, in, which this match ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber


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