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    1. Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising


    2. It is located in an out-of-the-way place, so not too many shoppers patronize his business, which might


    3. He’d found that it was better to patronize Gordon on subjects he’d become passionate about


    4. It wasn’t the sort of place she would ever patronize on her own, crawling with whores and degenerates, but her spirits brightened with the old memories so, with a light, lively step she went in to enjoy a drink in the bar where it had all began


    5. In this case, the authorities of Argentina patronize XUSING Project’s implantation to its country with more two intercontinental countries of its choice


    6. Nothing suited him better than to lay down the law, patronize and exhort


    7. I smiled at my friend, not to patronize him, but because I knew he was telling the truth


    8. "Sergeant Ritko, don't patronize me on behalf of your boyhood friend


    9. "Damn it! Don't patronize me, Travis," she snapped and walked through the crowds, expecting ordinary people to make way, and they did


    10. ” Refuse to patronize existing tracks, work to ensure that racing regulations are reformed and enforced, lobby against the construction of new tracks, and educate your friends and family members about the tragic lives that racehorses lead

    11. patronize me! I want the honest truth and nothing but the truth


    12. You don't have to patronize me


    13. What better place is there to have some fun than at a bank? You may want to avoid trying this at the one you patronize, unless you’re ready to close out your account


    14. The websites were not majorly used for publishing price information even though publishing price information alongside product or service details can encourage the potential customer to spend money to patronize the firm


    15. It was true that he was jealous of the ones whose families supplied them with enough money to regularly patronize the porter, but also he was learning to live without


    16. With the nursery being somewhat out from town, he made it a point to drive in and patronize other local businesses at least once most days


    17. “Do not work for nor patronize any company, owner, or housing agency that conducts background checks


    18. We ignore our young, we patronize them, we sentimentalize them, we de-value them, we give them useless toys to waste their most precious years on, we give them television to deaden their brains with: because we are too busy working like slave ants… inside a corrupt pile of dead accumulated civilization, just in order to survive in it


    19. Some persons might have considered these pleasing liberties as bribes, but Demi didn't see it in that light, and continued to patronize thèthe bear-man' with pensive affability, while Daisy bestowed her small affections upon him at the third call, and considered his shoulder her throne, his arm her refuge, his gifts treasures surpassing worth


    20. Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at ₣20,000; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering–pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top–shell snails—greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun–carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred–star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery–furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother–of–pearl; green

    21. Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me


    22. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it


    23. For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips


    24. What encouraged me not to become your surety, but to patronize you?—your father's name, so well known in Italy and so highly honored


    25. The mere thought that such illustrious individuals as Vicar Zahmsyn Trynair, Mother Church’s own Chancellor, would patronize a common smuggler was preposterous! Why, even the Grand Inquisitor’s wine steward had been known to nip into Mahkbyth’s shop for the odd bottle of Vicar Zhaspahr’s favorite Old Mykalym Grand Reserve, the single thing about Chisholm which had somehow escaped the Inquisition’s anathematization


    26. “Don’t patronize me, Keith


    27. Minchin shared fully in the new pique against Bulstrode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate


    28. Peacock's, sent for Lydgate, whom he had expressed his intention to patronize


    29. I win unwinnable cases, and the case that I think you may soon face is—I don’t want to patronize you—it’s a tough one


    30. Don’t buy stock in every company you ever patronize

    31. “Well!” she cried, “we have ‘put him through his paces,’ with a vengeance! My dears, you imagined, I believe, that you were about to patronize this young gentleman, like some poor protégé picked up somewhere, and taken under your magnificent protection


    32. Its colossal results, however, so overwhelmed him that he forthwith announced his belief that New York would patronize two Hippodromes, and his intention of building a second


    1. At the entrance is a convenience store that is heavily patronized by SDPD


    2. patronized her like a bull in heat


    3. somewhere other than the Steak House, somewhere less patronized


    4. He idealizes the king whom Conan killed to get the crown, remembering only that he occasionally patronized the arts, and forgetting the evils of his reign, and he is making the people forget


    5. When will he stop with that patronized behavior?


    6. Gazing at his innocent child, Mitchell felt somewhat patronized at his roundabout tactics; even though he knew his motivations were ultimately geared to improving him psychologically


    7. The country store where Graisco anticipated finding Cyril’s lead on obtaining nitroglycerin was typical of a small establishment, once a thriving business, though now little more than a memory except to those good old boys who still patronized it going to or from Georgetown


    8. es whenever they patronized the establishment


    9. It was patronized by the husbands of those wives, and by any strangers in town who could afford it


    10. We took a taxi from the airport to Shelley"s, a hotel I patronized frequently on Mumbai harbor

    11. "I hate to be patronized, and the Chesters think it's a great favor to allow us to help with their highly connected fair


    12. I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more (though I did not use that precise word in my meditations) with my confidence


    13. They had to sit there like a lot of children while they were lectured and preached at and patronized


    14. schoolfellow he had patronized and protected indeed


    15. She ascribed this hostility to the awkward position in which Anna, who had once patronized her, must feel with her now, and she felt sorry for her


    16. knew that men patronized these women for purposes which no lady should mention—or, Bad women and all they involved were mysterious and revolting matters to her


    17. So, because she was pretty and charming and could appear quite helpless and forlorn at times, they gladly patronized her lumber yard and also Frank’s store, feeling that they should help a plucky little woman who apparently had only a shiftless husband to


    18. I sniffed, feeling patronized


    19. He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby night


    20. Some of these publications, odd to say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret Library

    21. There was a house out by the baseball park he patronized


    22. Do we doubt the inveteracy of the French hatred of the British navy when it has existed so many years? If this invention would command the British Channel—and millions are but dust in the balance for this object—to enable Bonaparte to strike at the British soil, why has not the invention been patronized by France? It has been rejected by France, and rejected by England after an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars—and now are we to take it up? It is as a stationary resistance to be made to a naval force where there are fortresses also, that the torpedo may be made use of, if they can be used at all; where chains, or chevaux-de-frises are made use of, it may be made use of as auxiliary to other aids in terrifying the enemy


    23. This assertion is warranted by the history of these institutions, and of the countries where they have been patronized


    24. why has not the invention been patronized by the French, 221;


    1. cannot be a good customer in the stores he patronizes


    2. I know one who is deeply in the local politics and boasts that any resort that patronizes him is immune


    3. She has been married for a long time without a child and is desperate for one, which is why she patronizes madam Dorcas


    4. genus Sparus, some measuring up to thirteen decimeters, appeared in silver and azure costumes encircled with ribbons, which contrasted with the dark color of their fins; fish sacred to the goddess Venus, their eyes set in brows of gold; a valuable species that patronizes all waters fresh or salt, equally at home in rivers, lakes, and oceans, living in every clime, tolerating any temperature, their line dating back to prehistoric times on this earth yet preserving all its beauty from those far–off days


    5. improvements, with the best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but owing to the public that patronizes them, are with astounding rapidity transformed into filthy taverns with a pretension of modern improvement that only makes them worse than the oldfashioned, honestly filthy hotels


    6. In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes


    1. The same soft beat of reggae fills the air, in the shimmering heat of the afternoon when the only movement is children at play and, in the evening, when the entire population emerges, sitting in lawns, visiting neighbors or patronizing open air establishments


    2. These guys were patronizing me


    3. She gives me a patronizing look, the way people sometimes look at children when they act too adult, and snatches the flag from the branch


    4. Helping to get the grinder going was one thing, but my hog raising suggestion, well, THAT is what Uncle Harry would probably call being “insufferably patronizing


    5. philosophy is ‘liberal’-Left-wing) on the Fox News Channel’s Hannity and Colmes, on June 18, 2003, I found his indulgent, patronizing remarks about the “conservative nature”


    6. old Dack’s patronizing attitude


    7. Praise was redundant, embarrassing, patronizing and belittling


    8. very patronizing thing to do, It implies a sense of ‘ownership’ which is


    9. It's beginning to sound patronizing


    10. the fact that she seemed to be patronizing me

    11. "Are you guys ready to ride the roller coaster again?" His voice immediately took on a patronizing undertone that generated resentment in the girls from his sly pressure


    12. “Brad,” she said in a very patronizing


    13. ” There was an overt patronizing tone


    14. “That was very nice of you,” Alex said, clearly patronizing her


    15. Alex couldn’t help the patronizing tone that slipped into his


    16. asked, trying not to sound disinterested or patronizing


    17. Patronizing them seemed somewhat hypocritical at this point


    18. In addition, they’d been patronizing Silver City since the early days of


    19. paternal, but somewhat patronizing also


    20. “Please don’t be patronizing, doctor

    21. Some significant testing proved this was, in fact, the case… customers were being “trained” to wait on our promotions to run prior to patronizing our establishments


    22. “I am a wanderer,” he replied hastily, wary of the birds patronizing manner


    23. When she opened her mouth to speak, she found herself not knowing what to say without sounding patronizing


    24. "Are you patronizing me?" Tony said with a grin


    25. Before he could say anything patronizing again she turned and went back up the stairs


    26. The other part knew it would sound patronizing and condescending,


    27. At the sound of Shela’s patronizing laugh, Liam’s face creased into a gallant smile and the red dissolved immediately


    28. The elf regarded Shela with the patronizing disdain that elves commanded so well


    29. Blunt was not a fan of the Welshman’s patronizing approach


    30. censures and ridicules the abuses and the patronizing attitude

    31. Elm felt this patronizing sentence was hardly worth answering since Pine already knew he was aware of the enforcement, but he didn't want to start an argument when his mind was so un-obliging in its abilities


    32. Carrie almost smiled at the slightly patronizing air she


    33. � I wanted to feel unconditional positive regard and not the patronizing attitude that patience may represent


    34. calling out to her in patronizing tones


    35. It was almost calculating, and slightly patronizing


    36. As the four sisters went home through the garden, Miss Kate looked after them, saying, without the patronizing tone in her voice, "In spite of their demonstrative manners, American girls are very nice when one knows them


    37. She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggravated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother


    38. Then two men dressed as priests who look like old TV characters that are out to kill you is a little hard to believe,” he said with a fatherly nearly patronizing smile


    39. "Come nearer," said the magistrate, with a patronizing wave of the hand, "and tell me to


    40. That abject hypocrite, Pumblechook, nodded again, and said, with a patronizing

    41. This letter was followed by others of a somewhat similar kind, and one or two written in a patronizing strain in defence of the working classes by persons who evidently knew nothing about them


    42. Reynolds gave her a patronizing stare


    43. But after seeing his brother, listening to his conversation with the professor, hearing afterwards the unconsciously patronizing tone in which his brother questioned him about agricultural matters (their mother’s property had not been divided, and Levin took charge of both their shares), Levin felt that he could not for some reason begin to talk to him of his intention of marrying


    44. But they sounded trite and patronizing


    45. He supposed some of that was a case of ambitious members of Mother Church’s hierarchy being eager to be seen patronizing the “right” shops, but mostly it was because he was one of the half-dozen best in the entire city of Zion at his trade


    46. Princess Varvara gave Dolly a cordial and rather patronizing reception, and began at once explaining to her that she was living with Anna because she had always cared more for her than her sister Katerina Pavlovna, the aunt that had brought Anna up, and that now, when every onehad abandoned Anna, she thought it her duty to help her in this most difficult period of transition


    47. ‘And what am I going to say to Dolly now? Amuse Kitty by the sight of my wretchedness, submit to her patronizing? No; and besides, Dolly wouldn’t understand


    48. He was the Victorian tourist, solid and patronizing, for whose amusement these foreign things were paraded


    49. William offered to pay (once he was legally adult, he had full control of the trust fund his mother had left him—plus the cash from selling off Regan’s Karmann Ghia through the local classifieds), but Bruno always refused, in a way that should have been welcome but that just felt patronizing


    50. ” His habit of addressing her formally was obsequious to whatever degree it wasn’t patronizing




















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    Synonyms for "patronize"

    keep going patronage patronise patronize support condescend sponsor buy at frequent shop shop at underestimate talk down to indulge humour tolerate deal with

    "patronize" definitions

    assume sponsorship of


    do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of


    treat condescendingly


    be a regular customer or client of