| Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote. |
| He promoted and patronised the artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood hoping they might provide a new and noble British Art. |
| We also want to be assimilated into the mainstream and do not want to be patronised. |
| The old Forrest Hotel is now the Time, which is patronised only by the better element of rumpots in New York. |
| For a long time now the place has been well patronised by local ex-pats who are familiar with the noshery's location and the quality of its grub. |
| There is a big ego at work here, one that takes umbrage at being patronised and is not averse to bad-mouthing anyone he deems incompetent. |
