patroness

Example Sentences

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Sherriff never patronises, nor does he attempt to exalt these people beyond what they are.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2020

Everyone patronises you or exchanges knowing looks when you say something really important.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2014

Society eats as much, judging from the size and number of new restaurants; its patronises as usual the silliest plays in London, and buys in larger quantities than ever the idiotic novels provided for it. 

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

In some such insidious form there is at present a strong tendency to this narrow theory of life, and to the pinched and hidebound type of human character which it patronises.

From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart

But Gustave the friend has for mistress an adorable grisette—amiability, in the widest sense, nez retroussé, garret, and millinery all complete—whom Madame de Péreux, Edmond's mother—a sainte, but without prejudices—tolerates, and in fact patronises.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George