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词汇 patronizingly
释义 patronizingly
adverb
mainly USdisapproving(UK usuallypatronisingly)uk /ˈpæt.rə.naɪ.zɪŋ.li/ us /ˈpeɪ.trə.naɪ.zɪŋ.li/
in a way that shows that you think someone is stupid or not important:
She smiled at him patronisingly.
He'd told her patronizingly to go home and stop interfering in his case.
"What a perceptive question," she commented, patronisingly.
He smiled and and patted her hand patronizingly once more.
He was rather patronizingly called an armchair psychologist.
Most of them are working people, whether or not they live on what he patronizingly calls "sink estates".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Showing arrogance and conceit
(as) proud as Luciferidiom
airs and gracesidiom
arrogant
arrogantly
as if you owned the placeidiom
egoistic
egoistically
egomaniacal
egomaniacally
egotistic
patronizing
pomposity
pompous
pompously
popinjay
swollen head
swollen-headed
talk down to someone
think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom
throw your weight aroundidiom

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