Crossword-Solution: CONDESCENDINGLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Condescendingly | adv. | In a condescending manner. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CONDESCENDINGLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Let the prisoner come down," said Tom ___ | 1 answer |
| In a disdainful way | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
INEOTOM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with CONDESCENDINGLY (5)
She went to the first meeting rather condescendingly, regarding herself as the only one besides Guy who knew anything about books or library methods.
But they all agreed that in the midst of them sat, quite at his ease, an individual with a pipe in his mouth, and a jug of beer at his elbow, who nodded condescendingly to Clemency, when she stationed herself at the same table.
Excuse me, Van Mounen, but I shall never learn to admire Dutch taste.” “It will take time,” answered Lambert condescendingly, “but you are sure to agree with it at last.
Alfred turned to his trembling wife with suppressed excitement, and patted her shoulder condescendingly.
Smith, putting his hat at the feet of one of the hall chairs, walks timidly in, and being condescendingly desired to sit down, carefully tucks his legs under his chair, and sits at a considerable distance from the table while he drinks the glass of sherry which is poured out for him by the eldest boy, and after drinking which, he backs and slides out of the room, in a state of nervous agitation from which he does not perfectly recover, until he finds himself once more in the Islington-road.
Quotes with CONDESCENDINGLY (3)
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realis…
So — I am n-nothing more than — than a bloody job?! On top of not knowing why you must look after me — you only jumped at the chance to help me because your — that V-Vampire thought you couldn’t?! What are you, some — some child?!”“I am no child, human!”“Oh I would not have thought so,” she breathed condescendingly sending his blood to boil despite the ring, “if it were not for the fact that only children react so wondrously juvenile when faced with such a choice! You bargain…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–2008).