What is "patronizing"

Usage examples of "patronizing".

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

Robert Milner was sure Bragford was patronizing them, but he was suffering too greatly from the embarrassment to respond.

No smart-ass grin, no patronizing, snarky frown, but something of the real person he kept well hidden inside.

Ozark traditionalism, but his patronizing attitude toward women did not prevent the New Deal that he offered workers from outgrowing its initially expedient aims and taking deep root within the company.

Little Arcady felt a genuine if patronizing sympathy for his mistress.

Sadly Bethel had seen Andy bid her good night--he so pleading, Mahala so patronizing.

Arnold suspected that Hester Kohn might be patronizing him, but Kohn and Munson Gallery enjoyed a huge reputation.

Back then Scanlon was just another patronizing bastard with a shaved deck, and if fortune put him down here on rifter turf for a while, who could be blamed for having a little fun with him?

She and Miss Chubb patronize the Mexican school with cast-off dresses, old bonnets retrimmed, flannel petticoats, some old novels and books of poetry--of which the Padre makes an auto-da-fe--and their own patronizing presence on fete days.

She liked watching the American boys swaggering along, smoking innumerable cigarets and surveying the city with interested, patronizing eyes.

As Noel passed before him the concierge made a most respectful, and at the same time patronizing bow, one of those salutations which Parisian concierges reserve for their favorite tenants, generous mortals always ready to give.

But they did not really see the lake till they had taken the train for Niagara Falls, after breakfasting in the depot, where the children, used to the severe native or the patronizing Irish ministrations of Boston restaurants and hotels, reveled for the first time in the affectionate devotion of a black waiter.

Dorrin grins at the patronizing tone, and chews through the half-warm bread.

Madam corrected me with a patronizing air for my pronounciation of the word 'scevra', which means divided, saying that it ought to be pronounced 'sceura', and she added that I ought to be very glad to have learned so much on the first day of my arrival in Paris, telling me that it would be an important day in my life.

Tenthag saw nothing special about the accoutrements of the briqs and junqsindeed, they could have been matched by any kyq from his youth, and the latter would have been set about with useful gorborangs, as wellbut now was no time to be patronizing.