Definition of Patronising

1. Adjective. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension.

Exact synonyms: Arch, Condescending, Patronizing
Similar to: Superior
Derivative terms: Condescendingness

Definition of Patronising

1. Verb. (present participle of patronise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patronising

1. patronise [v] - See also: patronise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patronising

patron saint
patron saints
patronage
patronages
patronal
patronate
patroness
patronesses
patronisation
patronisations
patronise
patronised
patroniser
patronisers
patronises
patronising (current term)
patronisingly
patronite
patronites
patronization
patronizations
patronize
patronized
patronizer
patronizers
patronizes
patronizing
patronizingly
patronless
patronly

Literary usage of Patronising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"But he was an indefatigable literary inquirer, and seems, in a patronising kind of way ... patronising ..."

2. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the by Robert Burns (1898)
"Your patronising me and interesting yourself in my fame and character as a poet, I rejoice in ; it exalts me in my own idea ; and whether you can or cannot ..."

3. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"Men decline patronising wit, p. 513; here decline imitates forbear and governs a Participle. The very French idiom to place money (invest it) appears in p. ..."

4. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"objective cognition into subjective consciousness of our own phenomena, is nothing else than, in the very act of patronising experience, to destroy its ..."

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