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.

26. Self-help has become a vicious and patronising fiction which is deployed to excuse society's neglect of its lowest earners.

27. Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.

28. 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.

29. 9 He writes with masterful facility, and succeeds in making his subject accessible to an audience of non-specialists without patronising their intelligence.

30. ‘a Condescending smile’ ‘But nothing could be more patronising and Condescending than his own view that being a farm labourer is an inadequate occupation.’

31. 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.

32. The " ordinary man in the street" or " ordinary men and women" - very patronising. Who are the people who are so different and not ordinary?

33. Synonyms for speak Condescendingly to include talk down to, condescend to, patronise, patronize, treat Condescendingly, put down, be snobbish to, look down on, speak haughtily to and look down one's nose at

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. " We have been demolishing unauthorised brick kilns and have been implementing the World Bank-supported clean air and sustainable environment project through which we patronise new technologies that reduce air pollution . "

37. ‘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.’

38. 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.

39. ‘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.’

40. Condescend: 1 v behave in a patronizing and Condescending manner Type of: act , move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) v treat Condescendingly Synonyms: patronise , patronize Types: stoop to make concessions to Type of: interact act together or towards others or with others v do something that one considers to be below

41. Condescend: 1 v behave in a patronizing and condescending manner Type of: act , move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) v treat Condescendingly Synonyms: patronise , patronize Types: stoop to make concessions to Type of: interact act together or towards others or with others v do something that one considers to be below