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Definition of Condescendence

Condescendence
Condescendence Con`de*scend"ence, Condescendency Con`de*scend"en*cy, n. [Cf. F. condescendance.] Condescension. [Obs.]

Meaning of Condescendence from wikipedia

- Condescension or Condescendence is a form of incivility wherein the speaker displays an attitude of patronizing superiority or contempt. Condescension...
- "Condescending Wonka" is an Internet meme based on the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory film directed by Mel Stuart. The meme emerged in 2011...
- and through," which in turn lead into a slamming of CNN for making "condescending" and "snide" remarks and airing "24 hours of negative, anti-Trump, hysterical...
- was for them, not just the musician. Nothing complicated, snide, or condescending." —Anthony Field, 2012, speaking about the state of children's music...
- traditionalists who saw the country-lifers as aggressive modernizers who were condescending and out of touch with rural life. The traditionalists said many of their...
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- Zionists. But at the same time British sympathies for the former were condescending and, privately, Arabs were often thought of generally as untrustworthy...
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- threatening with secession, in part due to what is viewed by them as condescendence of the party's national direction towards members involved in corruption...
- meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". In its...