condescension

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• In the ’90s, nobody had to endure the peculiar combination of condescension, contempt and she-looks-so-thin-I-just-hope-she’s-okay concern trolling that Apple did.

• Scandinavian Americans are now part of the cultural mainstream, but in the 19th century, Scandinavian farmers struggling to make a living in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas were regarded with condescension by the New England cultural elite.

• I may be overstepping myself with this hunch, but I see two confident, highly intelligent people — you, the eminent scientist — who have detection systems that react strongly to condescension.

• The answer, dripping with condescension, was “if you put 100 labradoodles in a room together, you’d be lucky if two of them looked alike.”

• His smirky condescension is pure sexist gaslighting, yet Vivian can’t yet see it for what it is.

• The irony is that the president, with smug condescension, is quick to attack others for being out of touch with reality.

• President Kennedy smiled without a hint of condescension and extended a hand to Douglas that was at once firm and remarkably soft.

• The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.

• Ironically, their claims of condescension are condescending themselves.

• Obama can exhibit strains of personal diffidence, even condescension, toward people, especially critics.