Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a condescending manner; so as to show condescension: as, to address a person condescendingly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a condescending manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a condescending manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with condescension; in a patronizing manner
Examples
“And I don't use that term condescendingly, I use it as a matter of factual concern.”
“Or they raise an eyebrow and gaze in the camera condescendingly, which is Lou Dobbs 'trademark euphemism when he has nothing valid to say.”
“She used my first name condescendingly, as Madam Scarasse had grown accustomed to doing.”
“Obama "condescendingly" implied that Americans don't read the Bible.”
“Taint much outer my way, "condescendingly;" I'll take you there. ”
“Despite the fact that Grayson clearly endorsed this course of action and not the introduction of a completely new bill, as Matthews now claims, the host went on to condescendingly demean Grayson as nothing more than a “true believer who believes he can get things done by willing them to get done!””
Think Progress » Chris Matthews Refuses To Admit He Was Wrong To Ridicule Grayson
“In his blog, Lindsay wrote that it's nice that some politicians are finally willing to acknowledge our existence, but are we so desperate for acceptance that we'll allow others to condescendingly misdescribe us as adherents of a faith?”
The Huffington Post: Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement?
“While the journalistic head yearns toward a middle-class living, the respect of those in power, maybe a seat at the table and a small trophy or two, many a heart also thumped for the hard-drinking, bare-knuckled access to what Black condescendingly branded "the lumpenproletariat" readership of traditional tabs: Jimmy Breslin speaks truth to power.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Murdoch, Britain and the Tabloid Mentality
“Those people writing condescendingly about Williams in comparison to the other major American composer who used “Simple Gifts” might have more credibility if they remembered that the name was Copland, not Copeland.”
A New Williams Work for a Momentous Occasion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“In the summer of 2006, the question was condescendingly thrown at me by a sitting U.S. Senator in a luncheon buffet line at a Senate Democratic Caucus retreat.”
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Wuthering Heights
From Wuthering Heights
sagacity, austere, surmise, corroborating, malignity, ensconing, copious, perforce, obviate, dilapidation, must needs, palaver and 154 more...
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Tom Slowies
Weeeelllllll, tom swifties really but I don't think of them very often. There are zillions out there in internet land so I'm looking for fresh, really awful ones :-)
endogamously, barked, inferred, philosophically, magnanimously, carmine, murmured, judiciously, disgustedly, deduced, uttered, posthumously and 15 more...
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hernesheir "Tom and I are going downstairs to get some whipped cream," said Constantine epexegetically, and condescendingly. Sep 18, 2011
bilby "Constantine and I are going downstairs," said Tom condescendingly. Sep 18, 2011