Definition of "patronizingly" [patronizingly]

• In a patronizing manner. (adverb)

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• "And yet it is not unkindly meant: only patronizingly, which is worse."
• "As they came up Jake Rossmore called patronizingly:"
• "Morgan patronizingly chose to believe that the socialists were taking advantage of the poor, innocent, ignorant shirtwaist girls; socialists responded that the shirtwaist girls were in greater danger from the “pretended friendship” of the rich."