condescendingly
/kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a condescending manner.
Example Sentences
- "[…]; and as there was some perilous probability, in the event of the Colonel and Coloneless saying ‘no,’ of the Captain’s proposing to Miss De Fudgeville, orphan daughter and heiress of the late Rear-Admiral De Fudgeville, who, though she was as ugly as sin, and had something the matter with her spine, had a fortune of ninety thousand pounds, the gallant Colonel, late of the Heavies, and his wife, condescendingly agreed to accept Algernon as their son-in-law."
- "He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually."
- ""What seems to be the trouble my child? Ah, the pains of youth," he nodded condescendingly."
Etymology
From condescending + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more condescendingly (comparative)
most condescendingly (superlative)