To release (a bow, for example) from flexure or tension.
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accommodate oneself to (one regarded as inferior)
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he would scarcely deign to appear in public
Deign
connotes unwilling or arrogant condescension the duchess deigned to shake my hand and, hence, is most frequently used in negative constructions or with such qualifications as hardly, scarcely, barely she didn't deign to reply
Stoop
implies a descending in dignity, as by committing some shameful or immoral act to stoop to cheating
Condescend
implies a voluntary descent by one high in rank, power, etc. to act graciously or affably toward one regarded as his inferior the general condescended to talk with the private
Find another word for condescend. In this page you can discover 37 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for condescend, like: patronize, assume a patronizing air, vouchsafe, over, rise, respect, displease, talk down to, descend, waive a privilege and sing small.
I don't want to condescend; but, what I mean is that it makes great little cars.
They will not condescend or take any notice of their indiscretion.
Opposition soon arose, and as Alexander could not understand a freedom which differed from himself, and would not condescend to the use of corruption, by which the ancient Polish diets had been managed, he was driven to use force.
He would not even condescend to make a baby laugh if nobody else laughed, or even listened.
The combative energy, the sense of superiority, the spirit of satire, characteristic of him as a Roman, unite with his loyalty to Epicurus to render him not only polemical but intolerant and contemptuous in his tone toward the great antagonists of his system, the Stoics, whom, while constantly referring to them, he does not condescend even to name.