patronizing

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• These blind spots can make the album’s appeal to just relax and go outside feel a little patronizing at times.

• Members of the royal family—including the tsar’s rather bohemian favorite uncle, the aforementioned Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov—began patronizing temperance.

• The sales tax factors in big too, Gin said, since visitors and tourists normally would be patronizing restaurants and shops.

• He said Moscow would ignore the patronizing statements of Western leaders on the case.

• Mehta was himself accused of highhandedness at times, notably in a 1989 article in the satirical magazine Spy, in which former assistants described him as patronizing and domineering.

• It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial.

• Many commenters found her essay less empowering and more patronizing.

• Among the explorers, a state of mind developed that was patronizing and paternalistic.

• We will gladly continue patronizing those stores, but will not be taking our rifles.

• Or they might stop patronizing Starbucks and start patronizing a hipster java upstart like Stumptown.

• Hence we find them frequently patronizing "mediums" and fortune tellers of various kinds.