| They are patronised mainly by the under-classes, including domestic servants, whose tithe is too meagre for congregational development. |
| Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote. |
| I hate being talked down to, patronised and being told what is right and what is wrong. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
