patronize

Xavier is much older than she is and seems, frankly, somewhat stupid and patronizing, but the narrator is nevertheless tormented by her feelings for him.

While the guidance has the right intention, it can feel patronizing and constraining, some employees and observers say.

His voice trembles on the line “Just hold me close, don’t patronize/Don’t patronize me.”

The late Norman Lear, who produced “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times” alongside “Sanford,” sounds a little patronizing, or perhaps just defensive, on the subject of not using Black writers on his Black shows.

If we want an art scene here, we have to patronize it.