patronize
Example Sentences
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Bryant said members of the council emphasized ensuring the messaging didn’t patronize young users and allowed teens enough time to download their conversations and say goodbye to their chatbots.
If we want a vibrant downtown, let’s make it attractive for people to patronize the business establishments necessary to its economic revival.
From Washington Post
And depicting the Vietnamese people as victims, that is sympathetic, but it’s also kind of condescending and patronizing at the same time.
From Washington Post
Harmon workers, who didn’t know the answer, said customers would often get frustrated or emotional because they were losing a store they patronized often.
From New York Times
“Don’t patronize me. The king needs his payment.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
