condescendingly
adverb
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Pronunciation: /kɒn.dɪˈsɛn.dɪŋ.li/
adv
Etymology: From condescending + -ly.
- In a condescending manner.
“[…]; 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.”