patronize

His voice trembles on the line “Just hold me close, don’t patronize/Don’t patronize me.”

The late Norman Lear, who produced “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times” alongside “Sanford,” sounds a little patronizing, or perhaps just defensive, on the subject of not using Black writers on his Black shows.

If we want an art scene here, we have to patronize it.

I’ve been thinking about the nightclubs our community used to frequent and the ones we patronize now.

Azuka said it has resonated with audiences who she was keen not to "patronize".