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CONDESCENSION

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Traducere în limba română

condescension substantiv

condescendenţă, bunăvoinţă, aer de superioritate îngăduitoare, complezenţă cu inferiorii.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If you had only had the condescension to return my confidence when I poured out the fulness of my art, the night I put you so much out of the way by sleeping before your sitting-room fire, I never should have doubted you.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Her ladyship, with great condescension, arose to receive them; and as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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