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The word Patronizing means "treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority."
RubyCorner Akita on Rails 2010
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Patronizing a Jewish doctor, employing a Jewish worker or being employed by a Jew — all became illegitimate.
Wonk Room » Dershowitz: Palestinians ‘Played A Significant Role In The Holocaust’ 2009
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Patronizing tribesmen has been a hallmark of Saleh's 33 years in power, a practice that secured him support he often used against his critics.
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Patronizing the price got us a society with no cobblers to repair our shoes ... it can surely get us an America with no gunsmiths.
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Patronizing the price got us a society with no cobblers to repair our shoes ... it can surely get us an America with no gunsmiths.
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Patronizing tribesmen has been a hallmark of Saleh's 33 years in power, a practice that secured him support he often used against his critics.
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Patronizing the Chinese with lectures – however legitimate – about human rights will hardly help to convince them that the US is really interested in treating China like a major power and not a backwards cabal of third-world barbarians.
Matthew Yglesias » Does Silence Demoralize Chinese Human Rights Activists? 2009
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"Patronizing hookers, or appointing your boyfriend director of homeland security, or claiming to be hiking the Appalachian Trail while you were actually down in Buenos Aires partying with your girlfriend are the kinds of things the public can relate to," says a CNN spokesperson.
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Please enough already stop Patronizing Israel, I am a friend to Israel but will state that Israel should show a little more patience with Diplomacy instead of playing to these reckless responses that have not worked for so long.
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Patronizing commercials and preaching to the converted is not going to do the job. —
McCain Ad Reaches Out to Hispanics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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