patronizing
pay truh nahy zing
- v assume sponsorship of
- v do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
- v treat condescendingly
- v be a regular customer or client of
- s (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
- Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window.
- Using stage devices that delight with their low-tech ingenuity and a text that modernizes without patronizing, it shows that theater can provide not just escape but sometimes a glimpse of the divine.
- A woman shopper patronizing a fruit stand at the edge of the crowd was shot dead.