patronising in English
“She's a good-hearted girl,” he said in a patronizing voice
Use "patronising" in a sentence
1. Well, It seems enormously patronising to me.
2. This patronising obfuscation was never very convincing.
3. Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
4. Not office gossip or patronising shit about trusting the Registry files.
5. The Student Cook Book provides basic helpful advice without sounding patronising.
6. I wish he wouldn't keep calling me 'dear' - it's so patronising!
7. As a gay man I find your sudden input of gay advertising patronising.
8. Synonyms for Condescending include arrogant, patronising, patronizing, haughty, supercilious, superior, pompous, snooty, uppity and snobbish
9. It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
10. Fiona Grogan, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.
11. Reports are commonly prosaic, dull, pompous and patronising and written with selfish disregard for the reader.
12. And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.
13. I run the risk of sounding patronising here, but I do feel that this is a point worth making.
14. ‘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.’
15. The former was written in the style of an internal memo while the latter was crass and patronising, he said.
16. 6 In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.
17. I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
18. Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.
19. Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.
20. 9 He writes with masterful facility, and succeeds in making his subject accessible to an audience of non-specialists without patronising their intelligence.
21. ‘a Condescending smile’ ‘But nothing could be more patronising and Condescending than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation.’
22. The sentiment behind the utterance is undoubtedly a sincere and genuine one, free of any deliberate intent to patronise, but it was patronising nonetheless.
23. The " ordinary man in the street" or " ordinary men and women" - very patronising. Who are the people who are so different and not ordinary?
24. ‘his insulting Behaviour towards me’ ‘Behaviour patterns’ ‘management is a set of techniques and Behaviours for getting things done’ ‘Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant Behaviour towards her in those times.’
25. 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.
26. ‘management is a set of techniques and Behaviours for getting things done’ ‘Nella was still angry at their patronising and arrogant behaviour towards her in those times.’ ‘He complained that the doctor's behaviour towards him had been inappropriate.’