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condescendingly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/

Etymology

From condescending + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a condescending manner.
   • "What seems to be the trouble my child? Ah, the pains of youth," he nodded condescendingly. 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:
   • He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually. 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10:
   • […]; 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. 1872, “The Toy Frigate. A Yarn picked up in the Model Dockyard.”, in Terrible Tales, page 91:

Forms

Translations (11)

cs blahosklonně (In a condescending manner) · it con tono di condiscendenza (In a condescending manner) · ru снисходи́тельно (In a condescending manner) · nl hooghartig (In a condescending manner) · mk снисходливо (In a condescending manner) · pl protekcjonalnie (In a condescending manner) · fi alentavasti (In a condescending manner) · fi alentuvasti (In a condescending manner) · nl uit de hoogte (In a condescending manner) · br war e blegoù (In a condescending manner) · fi ylimielisesti (In a condescending manner)