Usually means: Talks down to others patronizingly.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. condescends: Merriam-Webster
  2. condescends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. condescends: Vocabulary.com
  4. condescends: Wordnik
  5. condescends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. condescends: Wiktionary
  7. condescends: Dictionary.com
  8. condescends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. condescends: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. condescends: Legal dictionary

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  1. condescends: Idioms

(Note: See condescend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (condescend)

verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  (obsolete) To come down or go down; to descend.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To come down from a superior position and do something; to deign; (with a negative connotation) to stoop.
verb:  To treat someone as though inferior; to talk down to someone; to patronize.
verb:  Chiefly followed by on or upon: to go into detail; to particularize, to specify.
verb:  (obsolete) To agree to something; to accede, to assent, to consent; also, to reach an agreement.
verb:  (obsolete) To give way or yield in a deferential manner; to be amenable or compliant.
verb:  (obsolete) To graciously give; to vouchsafe.
verb:  (obsolete) To reach a certain point; to settle on.
verb:  (obsolete) To secretly make plans, usually to bring about a bad or illegal result; to conspire, to plot.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (nonstandard, rare) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to talk down to (someone); to patronize.
verb:  (chiefly passive voice, obsolete) Often preceded by the dummy pronoun it: to agree to (something); to consent.
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