condescension

The irony is that the president, with smug condescension, is quick to attack others for being out of touch with reality.

President Kennedy smiled without a hint of condescension and extended a hand to Douglas that was at once firm and remarkably soft.

The men in The Group behave with glibness, condescension, and even brutality toward the Vassar grads.

Ironically, their claims of condescension are condescending themselves.

Obama can exhibit strains of personal diffidence, even condescension, toward people, especially critics.

The duke was in the highest animation, and he talked to every one round him, as we marched along, with more than condescension.

A loud laugh greeted this remark, and Billy, smiling with condescension, said he was gratified by their approval.

There was a slight, almost indescribable tone of condescension or disparagement in her voice, the reason of which I will explain.

Her overtures of familiarity and service was unskilfully made; her very timidity construed into labored condescension.

The act had condescension in it; yet, too, something unconsciously simple and primitive.