patronize

But rather than a false and patronizing philosemitism, Christian empathy for the Jewish people is leavened with a clear-eyed assessment of U.S. security interests and the geopolitics of the Middle East.

Woolf could patronize American writing in 1919 in part because the U.S. still seemed provincial.

Practitioners of downward dog and their actual dogs patronize this tangerine-colored canteen.

They know when they’re being patronized, even if they don’t always say it.

Xavier is much older than she is and seems, frankly, somewhat stupid and patronizing, but the narrator is nevertheless tormented by her feelings for him.