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patronizing
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treating someone in a seemingly friendly manner but in reality treating them as if they are below one in importance and intelligence
Grammatical Information
Composition
present participle adjective
qualitative
Superlative
most patronizing
Comparative
more patronizing
gradable
Examples
Her patronizing comments made it clear she didn’t think the team’s ideas were valuable.
Lexical Tree
patronizingly
patronizing
patronize
patron
