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uncondescending

Definitions

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  • adjective Not condescending; free of condescension

Etymologies

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un- +‎ condescending

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Examples

  • What blazes through each page is French's absolute and uncondescending engagement with India.

    Book reviews roundup 2011

  • His regard for their magazines was considerate, focused, uncondescending.

    Never Hold Your Best Stuff 2008

  • His regard for their magazines was considerate, focused, uncondescending.

    Never Hold Your Best Stuff 2008

  • A series of scenic vignettes, all shot in and around the northern village of Lanna, the film harbors an obvious nostalgia for a simpler time, but it never exoticizes the hard agrarian life; the filmmaker's rapt, uncondescending eye keeps sentimentality at bay.

    GreenCine Daily: Torino Dispatch. 2006

  • The company's productions are models of uncondescending theatrical populism, reaching out to contemporary audiences without watering down Shakespeare beyond recognition.

    Happiness on the Hudson 2008

  • There was a flavor of this in tuba player Zach Spellman's interactions with the kids, which was both over the top and completely uncondescending.

    Adventures in Music 2 sfmike 2008

  • This 84-minute black-and-white film is harrowing and at times weirdly funny -- a portrait of the down and out that is strikingly honest, uncondescending and unsentimental.

    Any Given Sundance 2008

  • There was a flavor of this in tuba player Zach Spellman's interactions with the kids, which was both over the top and completely uncondescending.

    Archive 2008-04-01 sfmike 2008

  • Like the best of Hallstrom's films, "My Life as a Dog" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," it has a fresh, uncondescending appreciation of the lives of people far outside the mainstream.

    Have Yourself A Movie Little Xmas 2007

  • After David roundly trounced Monk in chess (and I was so impressed with Monk's grace in losing, as well as David's unrelenting and uncondescending rapport.)

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: October 2005 Archives 2005

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  • A vowel followed by 2 consonants, repeated 4 more times.

    November 27, 2011