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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
patronise .
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Examples
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At first it's funny and superior as Mavis patronises her despised Hicksville roots and prepares herself for conquest.
Young Adult – review 2012
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Wherever myth exists, it patronises its audience, it over-simplifies, it dumbs down.
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"The Daily Star patronises it's readers by repeatedly publishing lies"
Charlie Brooker: Q: When does a tabloid become crude propaganda? A: When it starts printing it 2011
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The Daily Star patronises its readers by repeatedly publishing lies
Charlie Brooker: Q: When does a tabloid become crude propaganda? A: When it starts printing it 2011
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The reason young people are turning away from traditional media in droves it because it always patronises us - in the news we're always portrayed as violent and greedy and in the ad breaks we're always regarded as a soft target for selling any old tat.
No country for young people: is this generation under strain? 2011
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Charlie Brooker: The Daily Star patronises its readers by repeatedly publishing lies
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It matters because using the word ‘girl’ to refer to an adult patronises and trivializes her.
How strange it feels to call a woman a ‘woman’ « Digital immigrant 2009
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Catherine Deneuve gives an unmistakably regal performance as Suzanne Bujol, a potiche, or trophy wife, to Robert (Fabrice Luchini) the wealthy, reactionary owner of an umbrella factory in 1977; he patronises his wife and is alienated from his grown-up children (played by Jérémie Renier and Judith Godrèche.)
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Is is also a little ironic that he patronises Welsh bloggers on their lack of knowledge re: US politics, when he spends so much of his time showing a remarkable level of ignorance about Wales.
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A powerful, intelligent critique which never patronises its audience, we may never see its like again.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009
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