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patronizing
verb
To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
Similar: enpatron, patrocinate
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.
Similar: condescend, infantilize
adjective
Offensively condescending.
Synonymscondescending
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