Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet CONDESCEND

His illustrations don’t condescend to children, they engage the imagination on multiple levels, blending childhood whimsy with adult sophistication.
If the addressee does not actually already possess the knowledge, it may be a way to condescend: the speaker suspected as much but wanted to call attention to the addressee's ignorance.
In the introduction, Weinberg explains his views on writing about physics for the nonspecialist: “When a lawyer writes for the public, he assumes that they do not know Law French or the Rule Against Perpetuities, but he does not think the worse of them for that, and he does not condescend to them… I picture the reader as a smart old attorney, who does not speak my language, but who expects nonetheless to hear some convincing arguments before he makes up his mind.
His Bhar master now designed, as a crowning act of favour, to bestow his daughter upon him in marriage; but a Súrajbans, though he might condescend to serve a barbarian, might not sully his proud lineage by a mésalliance, and Sudah Rai contemptuously refused the proffered honor.

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