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patronizingly

adv

Etymology

From patronizing + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a patronizing manner.

    • `Anyway, Bob's on a good wicket!' said Cummings patronisingly. `I wouldn't mind taking on the job myself.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at patronizingly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at patronizingly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at patronizingly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA