adjective
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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To its critics, "affirmative action" is seen as patronizing to women and minorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this situation, abject apologies in some respects remain complicit with the patronizing attitudes from which they attempt to disassociate themselves.
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Olga seemed to be more patronizing than ever today.
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These measures increased the sometimes petty and patronizing intervention of officials in poor families.
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This is why the tone of his communications with me has that slightly patronizing and protective edge.
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What exactly did he see in this patronizing little squirt?
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While a few felt that the social workers, were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian.