condescending
adjectiveShowing a sense of superiority while appearing to be helpful or polite.
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Clear all filtersShowing a sense of superiority while appearing to be helpful or polite.
About to happen, often with a sense of significance or threat.
Ending without the intended result or success.
Continuing without stopping or interruption.
Continuing without interruption
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The stopping or ending of an activity.
Purchasing or consuming in response to comparisons with other people's possessions or lifestyles.
Consumption driven by comparison
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Depending on a requirement, circumstance, or event being satisfied.
Depending on a requirement
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To compete or struggle against difficulty or opposition.
Compete or struggle
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Failing to fulfill a duty or violating a rule or law.
Not candid or sincere, especially while pretending to be straightforward.
Willing or having a tendency to do something.
A change that misrepresents or alters the true shape, meaning, or proportion of something.
Misrepresentation of meaning
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Money, time, or effort spent for a purpose, or the act of spending it.
To estimate beyond known observations by extending a pattern or relationship.
Excessive spending or use of resources; also an unusually lavish purchase or display.
Having limits or an end.
Relating to revenue, spending, or financial administration.
Careful to avoid unnecessary spending or waste.
The joining of separate elements into a combined whole.
About to occur very soon.
Continuing with little or no interruption.
Having a tendency or willingness to think or act in a particular way.
Unwilling or unable to change or bend.
Seeming to continue endlessly.
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