Sentence examples for being patronizing from inspiring English sources

When Minnesota sought its ban, welfare rights advocates there accused the state of being patronizing to food-stamp users.

"I'm not being patronizing when I say we thought our Arab neighbors could benefit from our being here," Kreisler said.

She'd been embarrassed at a recent party when she wondered whether other guests were being patronizing about her Little Loca pursuits.

Was he being patronizing — trying to assert his alpha-male dominance from the get-go — or just looking to demonstrate that he felt comfortable, relaxed, unthreatened by the professional politician?

He said in several interviews that Mr. Edwards' suggestion at the debate that he was being patronizing to the South had played a "significant role" in his decision that he had to speak out further and clarify his views.

He took complex ideas like Medicare and the debt and tried to explain it to people so they can understand them while at the same time not being patronizing.

The protégé thought he was being patronized.

Jeffrey was being patronized, but he was running for Britain".

One does not want to feel one is being patronized".

Shamash-shum-ukin had grown weary of being patronized by his domineering brother.

In 1991, he told The New York Times: "The thought of being patronized made me sick.