patronizing attitude

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That patronizing attitude isn't just limited to the work of rearing children, either, but also applies to educating them.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2022

“We look back at it with a slightly patronizing attitude, like, ‘how quaint that we thought high school parties were important.’

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2019

Ferraro retorted: “I almost resent Vice President Bush your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.”

From Time • Sep. 25, 2016

Emblematic of this patronizing attitude is the Caracol Industrial Park, once championed by the Clintons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2015

And he held towards the old lawyer rather the same sort of patronizing attitude that he had had towards the old man.

From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney