0 to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important: --
Stop patronizing me - I understand the play as well as you do.
1 to be a regular customer of a shop or restaurant, etc.: --
The restaurant was patronized by many artists and writers during the 1920s.
2 to treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself to be better or more important than they are: --
3 to be a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc.: --
Special offer coupons can be effective in motivating shoppers to patronize certain establishments.
4 to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important: --
Additional research has found that 70% of people feel patronised by advertising.
5 to support an activity or a public organization, especially by giving money: --
Communication predicaments of aging : patronizing behavior toward older adults.
In this situation, abject apologies in some respects remain complicit with the patronizing attitudes from which they attempt to disassociate themselves.
Patronizing speech to older people conversation between an older adult and a younger saleswoman who used patronizing speech and inappropriate terms of endearment.
Planned (constructivist) rationalism is achieved by patronizing professional groups and often accompanied with a quest to increase control of an oligarchy.
Although one of the union's objectives was representation in the state legislature, there is no indication that the union as such patronized their candidatures.
When you explain this to them, they feel wounded because you appear to be patronizing and showing some kind of superiority towards them.
Such loss of trust and cynicism often result in citizen apathy, the feeling of being patronized, or frustration with governmental bodies.
Here are cultures with patronizing to external practice.
