verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
patronizing/condescending (= showing that you think you are more important or intelligent than someone )
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complaints about patronising attitudes towards women
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's a charming little restaurant which is mostly patronized by locals.
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Just because you're older than me, it doesn't give you the right to patronize me.
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Kid's don't like to be patronized any more than adults do.
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She's almost 90, but she gets very annoyed with anyone who tries to patronize her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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East Berliners feel they are patronized and their western cousins complain they are stuck with the bills for reunification.
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It's nice to work without being patronized.
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We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taking form so far below ourselves.
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We thus had a perfect relationship: each of us felt that he could patronize the other.