Sentence:  He addressed me as Dave. (There was a note of <WSD>condescension</WSD> as well as of admiration in this "Dave" of his. It implied that I was a shrewd fellow and an excellent customer, singularly successful and reliable, but that I was his inferior, all the same &ndash; a Jew, a social pariah.) 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of condescending; a manner of behaving toward others in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless implies one's own superiority to the others; patronizing courtesy toward inferiors. (s)