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patronizingly
adverb
In a patronizing manner.
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Ochs comes in, accompanied by his loutish entourage, and he treats Sophie patronizingly.
Caravaggio's second version, which still survives on the altar of the Contarelli Chapel, shows Matthew in a considerably more-decorous light, as a scholar saint in dignified robes, writing to the instruction of a more-remote, less patronizingly familiar angel.
When he remembered how death had once loomed at him, so vivid and large that it had a distinct smell, like the scent of chalk up close to the schoolroom blackboard, he marvelled, rather patronizingly.
George's mother was less confrontational but equally proud: if a white salesman patronizingly called her "Anna," she would scheme to find out his wife's name, so that at their next meeting she could say, "How's Doris doing?" George says that he grew up as "a Negro — someone who was constructed so as to fit into the structures of white society".
TV-WIRE Program may result in viewer acting patronizingly offended when they discover that a friend hasn't seen it yet.
I later found that this was at the moment when Mubarak patronizingly reminded his listeners that he had once been young himself.
He found "On Borrowed Time" far less interesting, and afterward Kail shook Miranda's hand and said, patronizingly, "Enjoy this".
After he had acted patronizingly towards Maria Bartiromo for perhaps the third or fourth time, I thought she might walk across the stage and crown him.
Ships were one of a long line of things — fowling pieces, cannon, cars, trains — that boys patronizingly compared to girls.
In a recent interview, Sorkin spoke patronizingly of cop shows, but his Socratic flirtations are frequently just as formulaic, right down to the magical "Ask twice!" technique.
(There is no more painful, or movie-worthy, moment in the book than when, many years later, he meets Jackson Browne on the street, and Browne, trying to help him, patronizingly says that he has covered Van Ronk's near-hit "Cocaine Blues,& 8221 leaving Van Ronk to explain to him that it is, actually, a Reverend Gary Davis song).
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