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Get the apppatronizemeaning
verb·C2·9 letters
to treat condescendingly; to be a regular customer of
Example sentence
Please do not patronize me during the meeting.
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Give me a sentence with "patronize".
Please do not patronize me during the meeting.
That works. Now tell me where you last heard "patronize".
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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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