Detachment is usually associated with a slacker mentality: a cold, dispassionate, uninterested, apathetic, even condescending attitude toward life and others.

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This patronising, condescending attitude towards young people, no doubt with a hint of class-based snobbery hidden in there too, is the reason why many young people do not attend classical concerts.

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An "attitude" restaurant, with a claustrophobic town house setting, and service that is mostly condescending and surly.

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