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patronizing

verb
  1. To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.

    Similar: enpatron, patrocinate

  2. To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

  3. To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

    Similar: condescend, infantilize

Synonymscondescend, infantilize, enpatron, patrocinate
adjective
  1. Offensively condescending.

Synonymscondescending

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