The word 'patronising' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to talk or behave in a condescending or superior manner, usually towards someone perceived as inferior. Example: "I felt offended by the way my boss spoke to me, it was very patronising and made me feel like I was incapable of doing my job."
However, it also highlighted the persistence of patronising attitudes towards the region.
There is a cadre of people in Whitehall who were frankly patronising in their attitude to local government Then what?
Inayat Bunglawala, chair of an anti-extremist group called Muslims4Uk, said: "Mr Cameron's remarks are ill-judged and deeply patronising.
He began by patronising his readers and the people who pay his wages ("many Australians seem to have no idea what human rights are, and many certainly do not understand what free speech is") and then made this curious and revealing claim: Codes of conduct play an enormously important role in filling the gap between what is technically legal, and civilising and normalising behaviour.
Osborne told BBC Breakfast: "I think it's patronising to say that it doesn't matter what the price of beer is or it doesn't matter that we don't help our bingo halls.
It may be our Budget but it's their words, I think it's rather patronising.
Instantly recognised wherever the bus goes, the dynamo campaigner Harriet Harman steps out to meet the local candidate, Louise Baldock – and no one asks if it's patronising.
Predictably, many anti-imperialist leftists reacted to the news by patronising the Ukrainians: how deluded they are still to idealise Europe, not to be able to see that joining the EU would just make Ukraine an economic colony of western Europe, sooner or later to go the same way as Greece.
Yet because there is a pressing sense of what a useful bloc vote women would be, mainstream politics tends to carve out predictable, patronising areas of concern, that should "play well" with the female voter.
It was suggested that the workshops and talks would be patronising and useless, because everyone already knew about consent.
The author delves into patronising government propaganda, domestic minutiae and statistics, including shocking figures of illegitimate wartime births.
