PATRONISE Antonyms

• behave in a patronizing and condescending manner

• do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

• debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way

• treat condescendingly

• reduce the level of land, as by erosion

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

• lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

• marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful

• low or inferior in station or quality

• used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

• of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

• cause to be unpretentious

• cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

• a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies

• refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with