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condescension - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • posterity: Who rescues forgotten names from the condescension of posterity?

Converse of object

  • avoid: Avoiding condescension and trite characterisation, Sideways manages to be both poignant and very, very funny.
  • mock: Tho while previous entrants had been treated with mocking condescension, Lakeman was treated as a serious contender.

Adjective modifier

  • gracious: The law of subordination is based on God's gracious condescension to a sinful humanity in the person of his Son Jesus Christ.
  • enormous: Tho he idealizes the rural petty bourgeoisie, Tolkien treats them with enormous condescension.
  • great: His birth, it was a great step from God's bosom into the virgin's lap; a great condescension: 2 Cor.
  • ineffable: Yet do I hymn Thine ineffable condescension, O Word!
  • amused: Although I see amused condescension, which can be offensive to the modern eye, I don't detect any malice.

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