Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
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Examples for "patronize "
Examples for "patronize "
1 From grocery stores to accountants, patronize African-Americans offering services you regularly use.
2 It is the duty of sovereigns to encourage, patronize , and reward it.
3 Or did he patronize a ready-to-wear shop that catered especially to primates?
4 Not just teachers, but cleaning staff, groundsmen, cooks, the shopkeepers we patronize ?
5 No chance now of getting my amiable sister to patronize struggling genius.
1 On the other hand I don't want to patronise them either.
2 They patronise its art galleries, private schools, estate agents and restaurants.
3 It will be so kind of you to patronise my husband.
4 She likes some one to trample on,-someone of the name to patronise .
5 Since Sydney seemed disposed to patronise me, I was bent on snubbing him.
Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way.
1 The braves themselves did not condescend to menial labor of this kind.
2 These dignitaries condescend to advertise against each other in the local papers.
3 On the contrary, they not unfrequently condescend to bless the very humblest.
4 Nevertheless we, in our fancied mightiness, cannot condescend to such vulgar considerations.
5 I wonder you condescend to such trifles as fashionably-shaped hats and coats.
6 Will you condescend to do a few sums in simple addition today?
7 He looks me up and down but does not condescend to reply.
8 I so much hope that Roger will condescend to go to Annapolis.
9 So I scarcely condescend to discuss this question with regard to Emile.
10 Whether she acknowledged it or not, she did not condescend to discuss.
11 One cannot condescend to Du Barry as we did to La Pompadour.
12 A German count cannot condescend to learn anything about ces petites gens.
13 Perhaps we may even condescend to ask them to become our friends.
14 Even a mighty power may condescend sometimes to a very practical joke.
15 Go. Hemming wisely would not condescend to say another word after this.
16 Perhaps you will condescend to tell me who you are, Mr. Sprouse.
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