patronising

It's super easy to do so there is no need for a patronising explanation and it makes for the most perfect holiday hair.

First, slow down, but not to the point where members of your audience think you are patronising them.

I know it's just a one liner comment across the internet, but it makes you sound really patronising.

I find this just as patronising as 'a glass of dry white wine for the little lady'.

Perhaps it's your thinly veiled racism and patronising misogyny that she finds offensive; I can sympathise.

His friends aren't interested in talking to my friends. And my friends think his friends are boring and patronising.

The term has a patronising ring. But it remains the best framework for dealing with the rising Chinese superpower.

The objective of the patronising drivel emitted by politicians and business people is to drive out argument.

"This is insulting and patronising" to recipient countries, he said.

The West is still stuck in a colonial mindset, and approaches Africa in a patronising way that hasn't changed for many, many years.

Said by a white Texan dynast in Ghana, an African country once ravaged by the slave unexceptionable insightmight sound a shade patronising.

More seriously, a teacher blogged that Willetts's comments were "simplistic and naive" even "downright patronising" to young people.

THe managers adopt patronising attitudes towards the obedient and faithful subordinates .

Whether he comes to you in anger or merely to give you a patronising pat on the back, you are done for, cracked in either case.

From my point of view he was intransigent, patronising and utterly insufferable.

Be careful to avoid patronising or marginalising disabled people or making them invisible.

Why should I give my patronising colleague the benefit of the doubt when he was so clearly in the wrong?

Mary has died in overlooking these patronising, she HuoJu after close with sweet irony tone was virulent description of family and friends.

"Perhaps by being so tolerant we have actually been patronising, " says one diplomat.

Sarcasm. Your attitude, words, and tone of voice are belittling or patronising.

When she first joined the Wasilla city council, she found it full of patronising old men.

European leaders such as Mr Barroso may well feel "wounded" by the patronising lectures of outsiders.

And perhaps it is patronising to some people, some people don't feel the need to be liberated.

But O'Neill thought that a word linked to babies would seem patronising .

But that is too patronising.

I know what it is. But I don't want you to think I am patronising you, because I am your friend