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patronizing

verb

Meaning

  • To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.

  • To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

  • To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

  • To blame, to reproach.

Synonyms

condescend,
infantilize,
enpatron,
patrocinate

adjective

Meaning

  • Offensively condescending.

Synonyms

condescending