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Definition of Patronizingly

Patronizingly
Patronizing Pa"tron*i`zing, a. Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.

Meaning of Patronizingly from wikipedia

- 1935 Clifford Odets play Till the Day I Die to reflect a pattern of patronizingly claiming the superiority of males, "You and your male chauvinism!"....
- saying, "For all its manic poses and deflationary snark, it's ultimately patronizingly sentimental. [...] Maniac asks big questions about reality, and then...
- State Department people sitting around the table explained to him, patronizingly, why such an action was unlikely. Well, as everybody now knows, N****er...
- the archaeologists "pseudo-experts" and repeats that they treat him patronizingly, but he does not name them nor explains their arguments. The Guardian...
- calling it a “business deal." Cash eventually agrees. Outside, Jack patronizingly tries to help Cash, who, feeling like he is being preached to, asks...
- nationalist and postcolonial political and cultural themes that the West patronizingly expects, even demands, from the formerly colonized. —Bruce Alvin King...
- brother, Peter. Peter doesn't believe her story, however, and responds patronizingly, "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed." The band began as "BellBangVilla"...
- it," with Wyler "treating Barbra rather fondly, improbably and even patronizingly," and concluded that "Miss Streisand doesn't need any of this." Variety...
- has come from women,' she said, citing not just the tabloids but a patronizingly maternal piece in Time citing the foolishness of her choice, as if erotic...
- seasoned regulars of the first British expeditionary force said it patronizingly, the great British public hopefully, the world at large doubtfully....