patronizing的意思|patronizing的解释-里氏词典

patronizing ['peitrәnaiziŋ]

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patronizing

[ adj ]
(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
<adj.all>

Patronize \Pa"tron*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patronized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Patronizing}.]
1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to
favor; to aid.

The idea has been patronized by two States only.
--A. Hamilton.

2. To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer.
[Commercial Cant]

3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and
protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to
patronize one's equals.

Patronizing \Pa"tron*i`zing\, a.
Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a
superior toward another. -- {Pat"ron*i`zing*ly}, adv.
--Thackeray.

He insists on full discussion of his case with his doctors, and he won't take insults or patronizing lip from them.
Some of my first exposures to similar patronizing comments left me speechless; like many Americans, I had come to think of Japanese businessmen as invariably polite, self-effacing and even bland.
"He sounds as if he knows more than we do. The danger is you can put a spin on that to suggest he's arrogant and patronizing and moralistic and self-righteous." "We don't like people who think they're better than we are," she said.
Tapscott, who had become a Times editor, resigned from the paper but denied patronizing the ring.
Susan Cross, a lawyer at First Interstate Bancorp. in Los Angeles (she isn't related to the consultant with the same name), says that a male client became "even more patronizing" when she became pregnant last year.
Shawcross was also charged with one count of patronizing a prostitute.
Yet the picture is strong, at least in the first half, when Mr. Freedman lays out Bigger's bleak world and shows us the patronizing naivete of the liberals who think they are helping him escape it.
His impulse to overexplain a song can seem alternately patronizing, forced or just plain goony.
All those magnanimous American officials strike some as plain old patronizing Yankees.
AIDS changes all that; no longer can practicing prostitution or patronizing prostitutes be called a victimless crime.
Ms. Gant said all participants would be stabilized by officials at Boston City Hospital before being admitted to the program, and that those patronizing the van will be subjected to random urine tests to ensure they are not using illegal drugs.
The Green River series appears to have ended in 1984, after police began heavy enforcement efforts against men patronizing prostitutes.

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