Usually means: Displaying superiority through patronizing attitude.
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  1. condescending: Merriam-Webster
  2. condescending: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. condescending: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. condescending: Collins English Dictionary
  5. condescending: Vocabulary.com
  6. Condescending, condescending: Wordnik
  7. condescending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. condescending: Wiktionary
  9. condescending: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. condescending: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Condescending, condescending: Dictionary.com
  12. condescending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Condescending: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Condescending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. condescending: Rhymezone
  16. Condescending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. condescending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. condescending: FreeDictionary.org
  19. condescending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. condescending: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. condescending: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. condescending: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. condescending: Encyclopedia

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  1. condescending: Idioms

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adjective:  Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.

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