showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority: They resented the older neighbors' condescending cordiality.
Condescend
–verb (used without object)1.to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity.2.to stoop or deign to do something: He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts.3.to put aside one's dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior: He condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood.4.Obsolete.a.to yield.b.to assent.
