Crossword-Solution: CONDESCEND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Condescend | v. i. | To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior. |
| Condescend | v. i. | To consent. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “CONDESCEND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Allow oneself in a haughty way to do something | 2 answers |
| Act superior. | 3 answers |
| Patronize | 9 answers |
| DEMEAN oneself | 12 answers |
| Patronise | 15 answers |
| Stoop | 19 answers |
| Lower oneself. | 26 answers |
| Deign | 27 answers |
| Acquiesce | 41 answers |
| Make Better | 56 answers |
| Habituate | 66 answers |
| Subdue | 67 answers |
| Agree | 73 answers |
| Humor | 77 answers |
| humour | 79 answers |
| Lower | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONDESCEND (5)
These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person—that being better suited to the still smaller fry—but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.
But, oh heavens! shall we condescend to legislate on any of these particulars? I think, he said, that there is no need to impose laws about them on good men; what regulations are necessary they will find out soon enough for themselves.
The clerk nut-shelled the contrast between the former time and the present, thus-- 'Boat used to land--captain on hurricane roof--mighty stiff and straight--iron ramrod for a spine--kid gloves, plug tile, hair parted behind--man on shore takes off hat and says-- '“Got twenty-eight tons of wheat, cap'n--be great favor if you can take them.” 'Captain says-- '“'ll take two of them”--and don't even condescend to look at him.
She was no longer the young girl upon whom he might look down, to whom he might condescend, whose little, infantile graces were to be considered with amused toleration.
When I spoke to her she jerked a shoulder testily, but did not condescend to the civility of a reply.
Quotes with CONDESCEND (3)
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste.(I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time y…
That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.
... when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1966–1972).