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    Use "patronizing" in a sentence

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    patronizing


    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 "patronizing"

    arch condescending patronising patronizing scornful disdainful contemptuous overbearing disparaging

    "patronizing" definitions

    (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension