Condescendingly

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a condescending manner; with condescension, or a show of it.

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1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1662), 50. But familiarly and condescendingly setting out the Creation.

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a. 1699. Bonnell, in W. Hamilton, Life, II. (1703), 66. So condescendingly gracious art Thou.

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1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), III. lv. 85. He condescendingly asked them to ‘think he was one of them.’

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1863. Fr. A. Kemble, Resid. Georgia, 63. These simple remedies … are … sometimes condescendingly adopted by science.

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