patronization

Example Sentences

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Referring to the law by its criminal code number, she added: “The #219a falls and with it a piece of the worst patronization of women.”

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022

But pay no attention to the shadow of patronization, single ladies: It’s okay to be you!

From Time • Feb. 12, 2016

The mundane details of illness, the limiting subculture of exile in “Cancervania,” and the constant coping with patronization and misaimed sympathy pervade Hazel’s narration.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2014

I always make sure there isn’t a hint of patronization in my voice when I do.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2010

Nothing can express the pitying contempt or the lofty air of patronization with which the dominant commercial classes looked down upon the writer, the painter, the musician, the philosopher or the sculptor.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers