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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, arrogance, arrogant, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, big, condescendence, condescending, condescension, domineering, domineeringness, haughtiness, haughty, haughty airs, hauteur, high horse, high-faluting, high-flown, high-hat, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, loftiness, lofty, overbearing, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing attitude, pride, priggish, proud, proudness, purse-pride, purse-proud, side, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stiff-necked pride, stuck-up, superbia, superior, toploftiness, toplofty, uppish, uppishness, uppity, uppityness, upstage
Dictionary Results for patronizing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
patronizing
    adj 1: (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those
           who treat others with condescension [syn: arch,
           condescending, patronizing, patronising]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Patronizing \Pa"tron*i`zing\, a.
   Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a
   superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv.
   --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Patronize \Pa"tron*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patronized; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Patronizing.]
   1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to
      favor; to aid.
      [1913 Webster]

            The idea has been patronized by two States only.
                                                  --A. Hamilton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer.
      [Commercial Cant]
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and
      protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to
      patronize one's equals.
      [1913 Webster]

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