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Example sentences for "patronizingly"

Lexicographically close words:
patronisingly; patronize; patronized; patronizes; patronizing; patronne; patrons; patronus; patronymic; patronymics
  1. Could it be possible that he was using this patronizingly kind tone to Jethro Bass?

  2. The Congressman smiled patronizingly on the youth.

  3. The boss of the Senate" smiled patronizingly on the senior Senator from Mississippi, as though amused and scornful of his limitations as a strategist, as a tenacious fighter.

  4. Don't sit too closely in your saddle," Maud Warren leaned over and spoke patronizingly to Barbara.

  5. He put on his pince-nez and looked patronizingly around.

  6. Patronizingly he said: "You will receive a yearly allowance through my lawyer.

  7. So he strutted about and looked patronizingly down on his old friends Barrows and Wilson, and blew smoke in their faces, telling himself how narrow-minded they were.

  8. His upper classmen patronizingly smile upon him, while his natural enemy, the Soph, taunts and teases him, but is sometimes brought down and punished by his strong, young arms.

  9. Her mature colleagues of the Old World smile patronizingly at her efforts, but doubt her powers; while the cities of the East, seeing in her a young rival, taunt and ridicule her with jealous anger.

  10. But she played and sang very charmingly to the fashionable assembly in the Champs Elysees,--so charmingly, indeed, that Miss de Laine patronizingly expatiated upon her worth and her better days in confidence to some of the guests.

  11. He bent over her smirkingly and patronizingly the while he made as if to rummage in his white waistcoat pocket for a card.

  12. It amazed the latter no little to see his own scheme patronizingly brought back to him, and that, too, by a very powerful man locally--one who thus far had chosen to overlook him utterly.

  13. Rosendo smiled patronizingly upon the child; but Josè saw in the glance of his argus eyes a tenderness and depth of affection for her which bespoke nothing short of adoration.

  14. Our friend finds that his supper awaits him," said Diego, laying a hand patronizingly upon Josè's arm.

  15. Peg's face was crimson as she complied, she scarcely knew how; Bulworthy's countenance indicated the state of temper with which he accepted the proffered hospitality, while the Squiress gazed coolly and patronizingly around.

  16. She kissed him almost patronizingly and he tiptoed out of her room, rather glad to get into his own domain--the majestic library with its partially arranged wedding gifts.

  17. Nor could she dismiss Mary patronizingly and say the halfway melodramatic things she had said to Steve.

  18. How'd do," he said, removing his cigar, and waving a hand rather patronizingly to them.

  19. He nodded patronizingly to the keeper of the store.

  20. Baldwin smiled patronizingly for the first time.

  21. Williams looked at him patronizingly for an instant, and in a rather sneering tone said: "Just a friendly little tip, young fellow.

  22. The report of the New York Post was patronizingly favorable, pointing out the indifference of the public to the subject.

  23. The officer patronizingly remarked to Colonel Seymour as he was seating himself in the buggy, "I can gib yu er ride to de kote ef yu will excep of my sability.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patronizingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.