Definitionadj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
Last update: September 24, 2015
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There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronising lee of churches. [Please select]
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"You'll soon be managing the bank again and patronising the American bar with the same old regularity."' [Please select]
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There was no patronising flavour in his acting here, not a touch of "I'11 teach you how to do it."' [Please select]
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No, I'm quite sure such a patronising thought never entered my Betty's head.' [Please select]
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"Oh, perhaps you mean _Tower_ Street" said the constable, with a patronising smile. [Please select]
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The dancing elfish child--who had no memory of her own mother--had begun by taking the little old maid under her patronising wing. [Please select]
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"Gerald isn't coming and--I thought perhaps you'd be interested--" The formal, half-patronising compliment on his tongue's tip remained there, unsaid. [Please select]
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And to-day, being somewhat on edge, the brewer's large, blustering presence and manner--at once patronising and servile--struck him as peculiarly odious. [Please select]
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Sleighter's patronising manner and his criticism of his business ability wrought in him a rage that he could with difficulty control. [Please select]
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He stood there swinging a ground-ash cane, and looking at her in a lordly, patronising way, the very personification no doubt of boyish beauty. [Please select]
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