Patronizing in a sentence as an adjective

" after one too many patronizing comments from the old boys club of VC's or CEO's or SVP's of BD's.

They all had mastered that patronizing "settle down children" tone, and used it constantly.

And, in the spirit of the project, they'll reject all pull requests with a patronizing response about the way things are.[1][2]1.

When we'd tell them that what they were asking wasn't practical or would take extra time, they'd be patronizing like we were trying to lie about having spilled milk.

The whole pointlessly patronizing "lesson" in business and the direct threat to Steve's job was entirely unnecessary.

Do you realize how patronizing it is when white males get preemptively upset over something instead of letting women and minorities speak for themselves?

Part of the restructuring this particular business is convincing your talent that they are no longer working for patronizing bean-counting tightwads.

The IT crowd, for me, is one of those happy accidents in television where the writers, producers, and actors all manage to capture the humor of a subculture without patronizing it.

To horribly generalize - prior to YC "business" people had a patronizing attitude toward developers.

How could they have left out the patronizing irrelevant [0] links [1] to Wikipedia [2] in all the wannabe-academic [3] comments with references[4]?

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Patronizing definitions

adjective

(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

See also: arch condescending patronising