patronising

Are you aware of how patronising this response is?

", I guess it feels a little patronising to be told "of course you love Xbox, you are a geek after all!

There is comfort in that for them".Heard that kind of patronising put down before, used against people trying to be heard?

What a patronising and illinformed article, I would like to be more constructive but I really cant.

In this case though I just felt so strongly that the article was patronising and sensationalist that I felt something needed to be said.

Presenting the alternatives as much worse than they really are just so you can promote your own service is pretty patronising of your reader.

A patronising tone is really unnecessary in HN discussions.

I have a theory about people who talk with patronising disdain about how programming is easy and you can do everything with open source already.

I was just responding to the patronising tone of the comment above, showing how it's rarely the case that such manipulation is directly punished by the masses.

At the risk of being patronising towards someone using English as a foreign language, to my mind the best thing is the text accompanying the cartoon story: "The piteous woman is disturbed.

This article is a vacuous, patronising, self-aggrandising ego-wank.

I actually really think there's something in mindful meditation, but flatly stating it as the be-all and end-all solution is more than a bit patronising, belies the endless effort required to make it work, and comes across as somewhat arrogant, which is probably why you've been downvoted into oblivion here!