Patronizing Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "DESCENDING" which means:

adjective
• • Coming down or downward
verb
• • To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
• • To enter mentally; to retire.
• • (with on or upon) to make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
• • To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
• • To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
• • To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
• • To be derived (from)
• • To proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
• • To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• • To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
• • To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
noun
• • A descent.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The descending staircase led us down into the basement."
• • "He noticed a descending order of importance in the list."

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