How to Use patronizing in a Sentence

patronizing

adjective

• Because of that context, Manion said the word can come off as patronizing and demeaning.
  — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• But for many teens and 20-somethings, a smiley face popping up in a text or email is seen as patronizing or passive-aggressive.
  — Aiyana Ishmael, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2021
• Asking us to take a break from that may not be possible and often feels dismissive, tone-deaf or patronizing.
  — Rachael McCrary, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• By the end of the file, the vaguely patronizing top-line recommendation against simple summation begins to make more sense.
  — The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• Now mom’s and Giulia’s reassurances sound patronizing and hollow, and more disturbingly, suggest an effort to keep Chiara in the dark.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• This can feel patronizing, and may incite actual upset from you.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• And even at its most patronizing, ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ provides a generous, gentle stage for her most endearing qualities to shine through.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• As a rule, European green evangelism comes off as very patronizing.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps that’s because the cast and crew of the movie-inside-the-movie are all reprehensible, grotesque and spectacularly patronizing.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• To act like de Witte’s performance was some kind of wild upset seems a little disingenuous, and a bit patronizing to audiences overall.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2023
• The series’s interior world is so thinly rendered and its patronizing tone so prevailing that the impact is more lecture than thriller.
  — Vulture, 4 Feb. 2022
• At dinner, Chloe rolls up looking like Alice Cullen and everyone is very patronizing to her about being scantily clad in a recent photo shoot.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
• Members say the approach backfired, coming across as patronizing and failing to recognize the demands on senior women’s time.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Set to a soundtrack of stereotypical Chinese music, the videos featured a patronizing Mandarin voiceover instructing her how to eat the Italian dishes.
  — Megan C. Hills, CNN, 16 June 2021
• Bush, to his limited credit, at least recognized how off-putting such patronizing attitudes could be.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• The patronizing filmmaking advice Julie receives from the more confident people around her is often painfully apt.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• My trepidation was that the streaming show, the brainchild of Ken Daurio and Paul, would be another patronizing lampoon of characters breaking midsentence into song.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• MoMA promoted Edmondson’s work while also adopting a patronizing attitude toward the artist, who had never been formally trained.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
• More fundamentally, all this is an enormously patronizing way to think and speak about citizens in an ostensibly self-governing society.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
• Luxuriantly bearded Victorians felt deeply proprietorial about nature, and there was much patronizing sneering.
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024