Similar words: patronise, patronizing, patronizingly, patronize, patronized, agonising, patron, patronage. Meaning: adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension.
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31 His friends aren't interested in talking to my friends. And my friends think his friends are boring and patronising.
32 When she first joined the Wasilla city council, she found it full of patronising old men.
33 It's super easy to do so there is no need for a patronising explanation and it makes for the most perfect holiday hair.
34 Ferguson used to speak of City in the kind of slightly patronising way someone might refer to a little cousin.
35 "DEVELOPMENT depends on good governance. " Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave trade, that unexceptionable insight might sound a shade patronising.
36 History of China shows, she has always maintained "hostility" towards her larger or powerful neighbours and extremely patronising, "pat on the shoulder" friendship with smaller, weaker neighbours.
37 Even SNCF, France's national rail company, is considering buying them for the Eurostar, its trans-channel service, rather than patronising Alstom, the French national champion.
38 His more sensitive supporters would be right to feel it is patronising.
39 Whether he comes to you in anger or merely to give you a patronising pat on the back, you are done for, cracked in either case.
40 I find this just as patronising as 'a glass of dry white wine for the little lady'.
41 China's approach to our needs is simply better adapted than the slow and sometimes patronising post-colonial approach of European investors,[http://sentencedict.com/patronising.html] donor organisations and non-governmental organisations.
42 Giles's condescension. Mr. Giles looked round with a patronising air, as much as to say that so long as they behaved properly, he would never desert them.
43 Michelle Dewberry a former winner of The Apprentice, said the motion was patronising.
44 The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
45 The " ordinary man in the street" or " ordinary men and women" - very patronising. Who are the people who are so different and not ordinary?
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