patronizing

Meaning

patronize

  1. (transitive) To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
  2. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
  3. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To blame, to reproach.

Frequency

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