condescend to someone

condescend | American Dictionary

condescend
verb[ I ]
us/ˌkɑn·dəˈsend/
to behave in a way which shows that you consider yourself to be better or more intelligent than other people:
He treats his players fairly and never condescends to them.

condescension

noun[ U ]us/ˌkɑn·dəˈsen·ʃən/
Some directors treat actors with condescension.

Examples of condescend

condescend
In condescending he refuses to take his inferiors for granted, but suggests instead that their labor is something to be earned.
At the same time, historians of political thought have not condescended to deal with the political facts.
Furthermore, there is a purism in the field that is condescending toward texts that irreverently mix languages.
The pedagogical approach adopted does not shy away from these, or develop a paternalistic or condescending attitude to their difficulty.
Informing us of such an end need not be condescending.
In the competition with other fields, some condescending view by mathematicians for example vis-a-vis physicists can occasionally be noted, as partly in the last quotation.
To condescend demonstrated an easy-going flexibility of temperament, a willingness to compromise.
Condescension came primarily to signify self-promotion at another's cost; to condescend was to assert one's own superiority in a way that degraded others.
A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men.
That the newcomers needed to be assisted went hand in hand with the condescending belief that they had to be converted as well.
Unfortunately, the magnificence of these and other chapters is partially marred by the snide and condescending tone that colours a handful of other essays.
As they condescended (or abdicated their distinction), visitors were required to act like the people they were trying to help.
In such cases the object of condescension is thought to be unworthy; consequently, to condescend is to be compromised.
Speech does not merely reveal the emotions of the speaker, however, but can convey complex interpersonal meanings such as being friendly, rude, comforting or condescending.
Such a development would also further a wider appreciation for local forms of knowledge, an intellectual heritage hitherto largely relegated to the condescending guardianship of nationalistic folklore studies.
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