paternalistically

American  

[puh-turn-uhl-ist-ik-lee] / pəˌtɜrn əlˈɪst ɪk li /

adverb

1. in a paternalistic way; condescendingly.

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Example Sentences

It is important to Mr. Murillo that the canvases “weren’t treated paternalistically as children’s drawing,” said Clara Dublanc, a co-director of Frequencies Institute, as the nonprofit project, a work in progress, is known.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

Zimmer rather paternalistically asked Jefferson to promise to practice and study hard, as if there were any question about the effort and precision the Vikings would get from their star receiver.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

I’m gazing up, envisioning bombing down one of them — to wild cheers from Egan! — when he clears his throat paternalistically to regain my attention.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

This distinction is enforced only by the pieties of good-government advocates who, in the wake of the 1980 episode, paternalistically argued that voters cannot be trusted with live information.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2016

The Hollywood Mind is definitely a real thing, a vicious thing, a blank thing, that paternalistically insists It knows what the public wants.

From Question of Comfort by Collins, Les