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condescend
«Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
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condescend, condescended, condescending, unskilled
«For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
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abhors, absorbed, assumed, baby talk, childishness, condescend, condescended, condescending, In Training, taken up
«Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
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advertisements, board, condescend, condescended, condescending, educate, entertain, exploiting, fascia, painted, producing, Watteau
«If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
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condescend, condescended, condescending, sounding, UNIX, user
«Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.»
«'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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condescend, condescended, condescending, maxim