Meanings of patronising air in English

Hang me if I do, he said with a patronising air.

Going up to Owen, he addressed him with a patronising air-

She only shrugged her shoulders, and then stroked Olive's arm with a patronising air.

His lemon-lipped delivery, patronising air and inability to suffer fools have made him a household name.

Upon entering Mr Grave's presence, he received me with a benign, patronising air, and requested me to be seated.

Beneath the hostility arising from Britain's war measures lay, in the American mind, the irritation caused by her patronising air.

Give others a helping hand whenever you can without that patronising air of superiority so characteristic of the modern snobs passing for "gentlemen."

Mrs Lambert was looked upon as 'quality,' and as she passed into the cathedral she curtsied with a patronising air to several of her acquaintances.

One told me, with a patronising air, that, "in a short time, England would only be known as having been the mother of America."

Neighbour Pardon," he continued, with a dignified and patronising air, "the sun is getting low, and you will make it late home, I fear.

She can't stand it; Mrs. Newcome's dam patronising airs is enough to choke off anybody.

"All right; he'll do for us," observed Mr Johnson, with a patronising air.

"Quite right; very dutiful and proper," said the doctor, with a grave, patronising air.

"Capital idea, Freeborn!" exclaimed the midshipman with a patronising air.

"Not now, my boy," replied Basil, with a patronising air.

I took no notice of her rudeness which was remarkable, or of her absurd patronising airs, which didn't hurt me in the smallest degree.