Example sentences for: patronizing

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

  • 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.

  • Others find the book cynical, "simplistic and patronizing" (Richard Rhodes, the New York Times Book Review ). They say Kinsey's private life bears no relation to his scholarship, and they question the biography's anonymous sources.

  • lang's great quality is that she can pull off even the most anachronistic trifle without patronizing it.

  • Though meant as praise, it is in fact highly patronizing.

  • He appears to anticipate, and resent, our patronizing spying.


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