patronising

How To Use patronising In A Sentence

• But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
• This patronising voice with a whine and an awful regional accent was talking. Times, Sunday Times
• His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
• "Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
• It's that patronizing tone of hers that I can't bear.
• Third, "patronizing" is an understandable complaint but I do have honest respect and admiration for most people at TT. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
• Stop patronising me - I understand the play as well as you do.
• Count Mirabeau is a most wonderful man, but he is a more than questionable character; even if you marry him, your discretion may very reasonably be called in question, but terms of intimacy, except with that view, cannot for a moment be tolerated; - to talk of friendship for such a man is nonsense, unless, like the good old duchess, you had had a tendresse for the father, which made you patronising for the son. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
• To his rescue, to head off any eviction warrants, comes Mrs Whatsername, from Whatever Company, complete with a patronising understanding smile.
• Tip in Iceland and you will be seen as arrogant and patronising - and you might get hot soup in your lap.