patronizing
verb
- 1
To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
- 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.
- 4
To blame, to reproach.
adjective
- 1
Offensively condescending.
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