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Please show me example sentences with condescend . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
Please show me example sentences with condescend . Tell me as many daily expressions as possible.
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“To condescend” is relatively rare in common speech. It is not a high-brow or literary term, but it tends to suggest negativity or arrogance.
“He would not condescend to show up at a place like this” suggests that “he” considers himself above the place in question. This could mean, for instance, a genteel type refusing to visit a dive bar.
“She was a condescending jerk” suggests that “she” expressed an extravagant attitude of superiority, by—usually indirectly—insulting the speaker’s intellect, sense of taste, etc.
The only common usage of this expression in everyday speech is in its use describing someone as self-superior, as above. Other uses are less common and occur more often in literature (although there are, as always, exceptions—and there is nothing wrong with using it in everyday speech, it just hasn’t made its way into an idiom).
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“To condescend” is relatively rare in common speech. It is not a high-brow or literary term, but it tends to suggest negativity or arrogance.
“He would not condescend to show up at a place like this” suggests that “he” considers himself above the place in question. This could mean, for instance, a genteel type refusing to visit a dive bar.
“She was a condescending jerk” suggests that “she” expressed an extravagant attitude of superiority, by—usually indirectly—insulting the speaker’s intellect, sense of taste, etc.
The only common usage of this expression in everyday speech is in its use describing someone as self-superior, as above. Other uses are less common and occur more often in literature (although there are, as always, exceptions—and there is nothing wrong with using it in everyday speech, it just hasn’t made its way into an idiom).
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Thank you so much jette for an excellent explanation :)!!!!!
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