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Example sentences for: patronizing

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Though meant as praise, it is in fact highly patronizing.
An editorial mocks the overtures white politicians make to minorities: Republicans are "dorky and patronizing;" Bradley is "schoolmarmy" and self-righteous; Gore is "cartoonish"; and none is serious about dismantling the racial and ethnic classifications that still plague American law.
) Even nonconservatives praise Watts in somewhat patronizing tones.
I'm not sure whether the latter has any currency in America, but here in Australia it is often uttered in a pleasant--and perhaps patronizing tone of voice in instances such as, say, insisting to a reluctant teen-ager that he march off and do his homework.
(And, beyond a point, defending it is patronizing.)