condescend

alentua

käyttäytyä alentuvasti puhekieltä To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
1665, (w), (w), act 1, scene 2:

Spain's mighty monarch(..)/ In gracious clemency, does condescend / On these conditions, to become your friend.

Fanny and little Harriet he seldom condescended to notice; but Mary Ann was something of a favourite.

"You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart."

Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

“I didn't mean to condescend you, Mr. Shreck.”

“I'm not trying to condescend you, Ben.”

THOMAS. ... Does my anger deserve your condescension?

ANDIE. I wasn't condescending you; I was just asking.

THOMAS. No. You said “angry black man.” Like my anger only exists in a stereotype. That's condescending.

Can they think me so broken, so debased / With corporal servitude, that my mind ever / Will condescend to such absurd commands?

"This is the pay I get for condescending to let you go with me."