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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1 Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
2 This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.
3 That is a patronising approach which would deny widening choice to many local authority tenants.
4 Trevor Sorbie thinks the patronising attitudes of some salons can be explained by the youth of the stylists.
5 I run the risk of sounding patronising here, but I do feel that this is a point worth making.
6 It is one that patronising and superior Brits frequently sneer at.
7 It is probably patronising to say that in both cases the window dressing is up to Kensington standards, but it is.
8 Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.
9 Reports are commonly prosaic, dull,(sentencedict.com) pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.
10 Or make some patronising remark about her cute rear end and how he would be delighted to give her a lift over?
11 Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.
12 He showed a patronising attitude to the homeless.
13 One of the rather patronising defences often put forward about why such relics should stay put is that they will be better cared for, or reach a wider public, than if they were to be returned "home".
14 I wish he wouldn't keep calling me 'dear' - it's so patronising!
15 As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.
16 The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.
17 It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
18 Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.
19 He writes with masterful facility, and succeeds in making his subject accessible to an audience of non-specialists without patronising their intelligence.
20 In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.
21 And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
22 Until the opening of the Marlborough galleries had tended to treat artists in a patronising way,(www.Sentencedict.com) as underlings.
23 I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
24 Fiona Grogan, 17, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.
25 My children are very sensitive about being treated in a patronising way.
26 The former was written in the style of an internal memo while the latter was crass and patronising, he said.
27 Their attempts to be casual have so far just looked arch or patronising.
28 Ms Gilan says: "That voice does make men very patronising and very comfortable and not at all worried about competition."
29 Full of fire as he was in his public life, he could also unbend graciously so as to talk on the most difficult subjects to a stripling like myself without any trace of a patronising tone.
30 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.
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