(1) But nothing could be more patronising and condescending than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation.(2) Traders at Thursday's meeting were infuriated by what they described as the condescending attitude of the council's deputy leader and its director of planning.(3) At a makeshift relief camp in Nagappattinam, India, refugees complained about what they view as the condescending attitude of relief workers.(4) One deals with the devastation to individuals and families; the other with the condescending attitude Western nations have towards developing ones.(5) Even when youth activism is accepted it is usually in a condescending or patronizing manner when older and more experienced organizers run and co-opt youth efforts.(6) Often times, I believe that these condescending attitudes are at least partly due to misconceptions about Christianity.(7) It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film.(8) Miller, a middle-aged man with gray blonde hair and a compassionate face, didn't appreciate the condescending attitude of this upstart kid!(9) He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.(10) And if that weren't bad enough, a picture intended to make Stern's condescending message unmistakably clear accompanies the article.(11) I had been avoiding calls from her lately because she always seemed to have this condescending attitude toward the way that I'd been changing.(12) Our schools are only just recovering from the condescending attitude that we ought to expect worse standards from the poor.(13) I kept expecting him to talk with a snotty, British accent and be very condescending to people.(14) I still find their attitude to us condescending and disgraceful.(15) Most essays include the condescending attitudes of a society that views them as dirty, stupid, invisible or sexually available.(16) Even the Indians, towards whom some of my fellow countrymen have a condescending attitude, made strenuous efforts to revive the long-dead language of Sanskrit.
