patronizing

“There’s this patronizing tone,” he told me.

As a politician, he courts the center by patronizing what he sees as the fringe.

In hindsight, Walz’s actions feel, to me at least, more patronizing than liberating.

Trump’s term in office was marked by concerns that foreign governments sought to curry favor by patronizing his businesses, including his Washington, D.C., hotel.

Two years of patronizing tones from the rest of the Big Ten Conference suggested as much about USC, which, until this fall, hadn’t offered much reason to believe it belonged in such a weight class.