patronise|patronised|patronises|patronising in English

verb patronise (Brit.)

be arrogant, behave in a condescending manner; serve as a sponsor, serve as a benefactor; be a regular customer at a store or other business (also patronize)

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1. The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.

2. The Japanese Imperial family patronises the Japanese Art Association.

3. Well, It seems enormously patronising to me.

4. This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.

5. Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.

6. 29 It backfired when hundreds went online to object to being patronised by a multimillionaire.

7. Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.

8. The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.

9. I wish he wouldn't keep calling me 'dear' - it's so patronising!

10. Vegetarian restaurants are spreading, but many patronise them to be trendy rather than ethical.

11. As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.

12. Synonyms for Condescending include arrogant, patronising, patronizing, haughty, supercilious, superior, pompous, snooty, uppity and snobbish

13. It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.

14. Fiona Grogan, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.

15. Another stall which JAF always patronise at the same hawker centre is this Char Kway Teow stall.

16. Reports are commonly prosaic, dull, pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.

17. And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.

18. I run the risk of sounding patronising here, but I do feel that this is a point worth making.

19. ‘a typically Arrogant assumption’ ‘They look a little deeper into the matter without being pompous, Arrogant or patronising.’ ‘Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as Arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.’

20. there are plenty of rich Russians to patronise them and more than enough poor ones to make labour cheap.

21. The former was written in the style of an internal memo while the latter was crass and patronising, he said.

22. The UK’s Ageist attitudes have been revealed in a report that shows older people are widely mocked, patronised and demonised by the rest of society.

23. 6 In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.

24. However, with the particular picky way I eat, I think soon the stalls I patronise at the canteen would remember me.

25. I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.