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      The word is...is....i.....Oh bite my tongue!!!!

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        Having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.

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          condescend |?känd??send|
          verb [ no obj. ]
          show feelings of superiority; be patronizing: take care not to condescend to your reader.
          • do something in a haughty way, as though it is below one's dignity or level of importance: we'll be waiting for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear.
          DERIVATIVES
          condescendence |-?send?ns|noun( rare)
          ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘give way, defer’): from Old French condescendre, from ecclesiastical Latin condescendere, from con- ‘together’ + descendere ‘descend.’

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            to assume an air of superiority. "snob".

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