patronizing
Meaning of patronizing
verb
- To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
- To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
- To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
- To blame, to reproach.
adjective
Offensively condescending.
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Hyphenation of patronizing
pa-tron-iz-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- patronizing is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
patronizing synonyms
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Meaning :
patrocinate, condescend, infantilize
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