patronize
Dictionary
verb
- To act as a patron of; to defend, protect, or support.
- To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
- To assume a tone of unjustified superiority toward; to talk down to, to treat condescendingly.
- To blame, to reproach.
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