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Yh2665 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Descend / condescending

Dictionary:

To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.

  1. To slope, extend, or incline downward: “A rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain” (J.R.R. Tolkien).
  2. To come from an ancestor or ancestry: He was descended from a pioneer family.
  3. To come down from a source; derive: a tradition descending from colonial days.
  4. To pass by inheritance: The house has descended through four generations.

  5. To lower oneself; stoop: “She, the conqueror, had descended to the level of the conquered” (James Bryce).
  6. To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale.


    7. "The tone of my emails has been called condescending".

    Does it mean talking DOWN to the email's recipient?

    Thanks!

  

Top answer

Yh2665 "The tone of my emails has been called condescending ". Does it mean talking DOWN to the email's recipient? Yes.

— Mancroft

  • Yh2665 "The tone of my emails has been called condescending ".
  • Does it mean talking DOWN to the email's recipient?
  • Yes.
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Yh2665"The tone of my emails has been called condescending".
Does it mean talking DOWN to the email's recipient?
Yes.
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