Patronized

Examples

• I can't go anywhere without being Patronized. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She patronized Lady Gaunt and her astonished and mortified sister-in-law--she ecrased all rival charmers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To be patronized by THEM! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I hate to be patronized, and the Chesters think it's a great favor to allow us to help with their highly connected fair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Too passionate an absorption in public affairs is felt to be a somewhat shallow performance, and the reformer is patronized as a well-meaning but rather dull fellow. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But people sometimes like to be patronized; don't they, sir? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The little fellow patronized the feeble and disappointed old man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Whatever gentlemen are apt to admire in women, Mrs. Yorke condemned; and what they overlook or despise, she patronized. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For my own part, I will neither be patronized nor misled for no man's pleasure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He dresses at that gentleman (by whom he is patronized), talks at him, walks at him, founds himself entirely on him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He, like Bushnell, was an American, but his early experiments were in France, where Napoleon patronized him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I wish somebody would tell me whether other countries get Patronized to anything like the extent of this one! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I don't want to be Patronized. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more (though I did not use that precise word in my meditations) with my confidence. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They giggled, cackled, tattled, condoled, consoled, and patronized her until they drove her almost wild with rage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery-men, had proved its utility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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