patronising

• “Saqib Shaikh: I don't run my own business, so may be missing something, but why is this term patronising?”

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• “And this patronising is not unexpected (or unecnountered) when looking at how an expert gives advice to a novice.”

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• “Bill Bentley, East Sussex County Councillor, clearly a black belt in patronising, also warns that ‘living in a cold house can have an effect on your health’ There goes my dream of igloo life in 2008.”

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• “Out Of Here has a contestant who gets called a patronising nickname instead of their real name.”

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• “Bradshaw had not been possessed with the idea of patronising Ruth.”

  Ruth

• “Trying alternative solutions in a time of economic strife is not "patronising", it is pragmatic.”

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• “The Lib Dems, meanwhile, vociferously condemned the tax break as "patronising" and "sending all the wrong signals", recognising the anachronism in incentivising an institution that is increasingly becoming a minority pursuit.”

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• “I don't know what to say to Ann. It wasn't meant to be 'patronising' when reiterating that Israel's existence isn't a problem for me and shouldn't be for anyone else.”

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• “Of course some workers may find this advice "patronising", and they are perfectly free to ignore it - but the reality for large numbers of people is that it is often difficult to obtain time off even for perfectly good reasons.”

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• “I would also agree that Aslan comes across and some kind of patronising leader of a reality show than he does as the warm, fatherly entity he is in the books.”

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