Patronizing

What do we mean by patronizing?

To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.

To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.

To blame, to reproach.

Words that are spelled similarly to patronizing:
patronizing, patronising, matronizing, platonizing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word patronizing:
condescending, sexist, attitude, prostitute, attitudes, tibetan, tone, choosing, respond, comments, manner, gay, businesses, peoples, criticized, toward, advice, speak, towards, corporate, definition, restaurant, sex, scholars, behavior, communication, calling, interests, kind, stores.

Words that rhyme with patronizing:
advertising, tantalizing, rising, comprising, enterprising, mesmerizing, uprising, merchandising, unsurprising, analyzing, compromising, utilizing, surprising, downsizing, proselytizing, polarizing, sizing, emphasizing, organizing, antagonizing, exercising, demoralizing, devising, self-aggrandizing, jeopardizing, arising, advising, aggrandizing, publicizing, appetizing, scrutinizing, galvanizing, revising, synthesizing, satirizing, verbalizing, energizing, realizing, socializing, mobilizing, supervising, criticizing, stabilizing, chastising, dehumanizing, despising, apologizing, disguising, unappetizing, sanitizing, rationalizing, destabilizing, normalizing, prioritizing, recognizing, lysing, oxidizing, moralizing, harmonizing, revitalizing, finalizing, fantasizing, generalizing, immunizing, synchronizing, womanizing, capitalizing, maximizing, amortizing, authorizing, minimizing, specializing, summarizing, democratizing, temporizing, alphabetizing, centralizing, improvising, wising, fraternizing, prizing, characterizing, demonizing, neutralizing, editorializing, memorizing, monopolizing, visualizing, digitizing, customizing, ionizing, theorizing, immobilizing, paralyzing, modernizing, standardizing, subsidizing, tranquilizing, crystallizing, stigmatizing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe patronizing:
little, more, less, somewhat, most, such, least, sound, best, worth, certain, damned, downright, bloody, damn, half, pretty, non, allusive, subtle, affectionate, intimate, comparable, unconscious, usual, worst, protestant, slightest, bottom, avoid, later, male, merest, longer.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective patronizing:
pat, way, manner, tone, air, look, smile, attitude, conventionality, voice, sound, advice, form, thing, spirit, terms, messages, ackermans.

Consonant match to patronizing:
patronising.

Words that sound like patronizing:
patronizing, patronising, patronizes, patronize, patronise, patronized, patronised, patronizer, patronizingly, patroniser, patrons, paralyzing, patronage, patronym, patroness, epitomizing.