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  • noun Plural form of condescender.

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Examples

  • Keats, though, had a perfect right to indignation, directed not at how death in life was treating him, for there is no sense in indignation at such anguish, but at how he was finding himself treated by the enemies (the hostile reviewers) and by the condescenders (for instance, his publishers).

    Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009

  • Like Kinsley, Brooks is a wonderful prose stylist, but coastal condescenders?

    University Diaries 2008

  • But there are plenty of words that start with C and would do the work, more or less, of condescenders.

    University Diaries 2008

  • Obama needs to attack Bill Maher for calling her a stewardess and the rest of the coastal condescenders.

    University Diaries 2008

  • Obama needs to attack Bill Maher for calling her a stewardess and the rest of the coastal condescenders. "

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008 2008

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