Condescendingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/ · Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Condescendingly is an adverb meaning In a condescending manner.
Meaning
In a condescending manner.
Example Sentences
"What seems to be the trouble my child? Ah, the pains of youth," he nodded condescendingly.
He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.
[…]; and as there was some perilous probability, in the event of the Colonel and Coloneless saying ‘no,’ of the Captain’s proposing to Miss De Fudgeville, orphan daughter and heiress of the late Rear-Admiral De Fudgeville, who, though she was as ugly as sin, and had something the matter with her spine, had a fortune of ninety thousand pounds, the gallant Colonel, late of the Heavies, and his wife, condescendingly agreed to accept Algernon as their son-in-law.
Synonyms for condescendingly
Depending on context, synonyms include patronizingly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include patronizingly, contemptuously, deprecatingly, demeaningly, disdainfully, degradingly.
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