Sentence examples for patronising for from inspiring English sources

Others, including some readers of the Rotherham Advertiser, slagged him off for being patronising, for stereotyping northerners, for swearing too much, and for having a posh car.

He said: "Any offer of shares to employees is deeply patronising for people who have invested their working lives to a public service.

It all feels slightly patronising for move-on housing, dressed in the child-like garb of a My First House, while some elements are downright shoddy, like the clumsy metal staircase leading to the access decks.

Billy Hayes, the general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said: "Any offer of shares to employees is deeply patronising for people who have invested their working lives to a public service.

In my opinion, it's not reasonable to expect Sherpas to automatically add "medical guinea-pig" to the list of risks they expect to take, but equally it would be patronising for me to assume that these Sherpa did not know what they were doing – especially as Wylie was fluent in Nepali.

In fact, some of the practices to promote donations, cited in The Guardian, are both crass and patronising; for instance, I doubt any man is going to donate sperm because they want to feel "special".

Far from being a challenging art-house project, like Dahan's celebrated Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie en Rose, Grace Of Monaco is a clunkingly unconvincing melodrama which, were it not for its A-list star and the golden glow of the lighting, would be indistinguishable from the cheesiest and most patronising of made-for-TV biopics.

Tiffany, like her author, is patronised for all kinds of absurd reasons.

Many feel very daunted by "high-powered" courses and worry that they will be patronised for their lack of skill.

Like Dolly Parton, she was brilliant at playing up the things she was patronised for, and had quick wit in a corner ("It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on").

In her video Pearce said that she had been patronised for a lack of political experience and ridiculed for her past – she was convicted for smuggling drugs in 1999 – even though she had been open about her prison sentence.