condescending
adjective
[ kɒndɪˈsɛndɪŋ ]
• having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.
• "she thought the teachers were arrogant and condescending"
Similar:
patronizing,
supercilious,
superior,
snobbish,
snobby,
scornful,
disdainful,
lofty,
lordly,
haughty,
imperious,
snooty,
snotty,
stuck-up,
toffee-nosed,
condescend
verb
• show that one feels superior; be patronizing.
• "take care not to condescend to your reader"
Similar:
patronize,
treat condescendingly,
speak condescendingly to,
speak haughtily to,
talk down to,
look down one's nose at,
look down on,
put down,
be snobbish to,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend’.
