Synonym: buy at, condescend, frequent, keep going, patronage, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor, support. Similar words: patronize, patron, patronage, patronymic, matron, patrol, canonised, electronic. Meaning: v. 1. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of 2. assume sponsorship of 3. treat condescendingly 4. be a regular customer or client of.
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1. Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
2. Cornelia often felt patronised by her tutors.
3. The Japanese Imperial family patronises the Japanese Art Association.
4. I wish he wouldn't keep calling me 'dear' - it's so patronising!
5. It made me feel patronised, in a position of weakness.
6. This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.
7. As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.
8. The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.
9. It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
10. Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.
11. It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards, but it is.
12. In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.
13. And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
14. Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.
15. I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
16. Reports are commonly prosaic, dull, pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.
17. Or make some patronising remark about her cute rear end and how he would be delighted to give her a lift over?
18. It's a three star hotel patronised by many different nationalities.
19. Watersports on the beach are well patronised, although most people choose simply to bake in the sun.
20. Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.
21. Favourite food? Patronise any eating place frequently?
22. there are plenty of rich Russians to patronise them and more than enough poor ones to make labour cheap.
23. Zhao Dezhu patronise the coffeshop. When Shanguo learns that he is a Chinese physician, he grabs the opportunity to find out the tricks to bearing a son.
24. Another stall which JAF always patronise at the same hawker centre is this Char Kway Teow stall.
25. Vegetarian restaurants are spreading, but many patronise them to be trendy rather than ethical.
26. She also gives humorous background to the long-running animosity between Harry's parents and the Dursleys – "Vernon tried to patronise James, asking what car he drove.
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27. Moscow's massive inequality is a blessing for its high-end hostelries: there are plenty of rich Russians to patronise them and more than enough poor ones to make labour cheap.
28. However, with the particular picky way I eat, I think soon the stalls I patronise at the canteen would remember me.
29. Moscow's massive inequality is a blessing for its high-end hostelries: there are plenty of rich Russians to patronise them and more than enough poor ones to make labor cheap.
30. The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
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