condescending

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He is the one that came across as a condescending, arrogant, elitist fool.

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  1. adjective Displaying a patronizingly superior attitude: "The independent investor's desire to play individual stocks may well worry some market veterans, but that smacks a little of Wall Street's usual condescending attitude toward small investors” (Tom Petruno).

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  • This attitude is just smarmy and condescending, which is what offends me the most about many Dems.
  • He can sound sort of condescending, but it's not con -- he can be kind of condescending, but it's not condescending. —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
  • There's no need to apologize -- the headline is mean, condescending, and wrong. —  MetaFilter
  • When the former local editor-in-chief wrote an editorial I could be certain that it would be self-rigteous, condescending, and wrong. —  Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism
  • Biden came off as condescending, and ill informed in his often self congratulating rhetoric. —  Latest Articles
 

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/kɑndəˈsɛndɪŋ/
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