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"text": "We talk about fathers like puppies tripping over their big paws, a portrait long mirrored in a culture in which Father Knows Least, from Fred Flintstone to Homer Simpson. We diminish with faint praise; dads still get points for returning children at the end of the day with all their limbs in place. But the more engaged fathers become, the more women have to reckon with what a true parenting partnership would look like. Maternal condescension only really took hold in the modern age, when we turned parenting into a profession with its own implicit peer-review boards and competitive frenzy.",
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"ref": "1941, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Devil and Daniel Webster",
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},
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},
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"roman": "blagovolénie",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "благоволе́ние"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "snizhodítelnost",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "снизходи́телност"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"word": "malaltiĝo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"word": "alentuminen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "condescendance"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Herablassung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kondeszendenz"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sygkatavatikótita",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "συγκαταβατικότητα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katadektikótita",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "καταδεκτικότητα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"word": "leereszkedés"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "snishodlivost",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "снисходливост"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "condescendência"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bunăvoință"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "amabilitate"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "condescendență"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snisxoždénije",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "снисхожде́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blagovolénije",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "благоволе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mílostʹ",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ми́лость"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "snisxodítelʹnostʹ",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "снисходи́тельность"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "снисходљивост"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "snishodljivost"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"word": "nedlåtenhet"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "act of condescending",
"word": "kibir"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "patronizing attitude or behavior",
"word": "alentuvuus"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "patronizing attitude or behavior",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "protekcjonalizm"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "patronizing attitude or behavior",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "protekcjonalność"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"condescension"
],
"word": "condescension"
}
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