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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "paternalista"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "傲慢的"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "nedladende"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "neerbuigend"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"english": "tone of superiority",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "condescendant"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "herablassend"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"word": "leereszkedő"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"english": "false friend",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
"word": "จองหองพองขน"
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"sense": "assuming a tone of superiority or a patronizing attitude",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.