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
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
He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization.
From Time ● Nov. 29, 2012
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 Myers Gustavus
