Example sentences for: patronizing

How can you use “patronizing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The other half of Washington finds the idea of Wise-Men-to-the-rescue pompous, patronizing, and undemocratic.

  • In defending this scenario, Bennett, Hatch, and others have already used the same argument conservatives denounce as elitist and patronizing in the case of the affirmative-action initiative: that disingenuous wording misled voters about the measure's real effect.

  • When I called you the conscience of the American cinema, I was being neither ironic nor, I hope, patronizing.

  • "Of all the patronizing white-witness movies made in Hollywood about the civil rights movement, this has to be the loopiest" (Steve Daly, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to find out more about Banderas.)

  • (And, beyond a point, defending it is patronizing.)


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