The straight talker of 2000 has been replaced by a talking point spouting patronizer. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant] Reference
When the bad news about Bear Stearns hit the market several Fridays back, it stole the media's attention from the story that had dominated the earlier part of the week: the fall of call-girl patronizer Eliot Spitzer. From Wordnik.com. [Yvette Kantrow: To Catch a Banker: Why Does the Media Hate Bear Stearns?] Reference
There is nothing surprising in it at all, the gentleman certainly looks like a "Russell House" patronizer, but then the "Albion" is quiet and secluded, and perhaps this gentleman prefers it to the endless noises of greater hotels. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Young man, whichever of these Himalayan altitudes you propose to climb, follow the recipe here enjoined, and you will be apt to reach it, be it the pinnacle of President or patronizer or moneyed potentate. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
"I bear that name," said the Major, "and those titles, trusting at the same time that the ministers of grace will carry me triumphantly through all my laudable undertakings, and if," continued the Major, "you, sir, are the patronizer of noble deeds, I should like to make you my confidant and learn your address.". From Wordnik.com. [The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories] Reference
“You’re not a really champion patronizer like some men I know,” said Zee, “but you do have your moments.”. From Wordnik.com. [Death on a Vineyard Beach] Reference
The sole hold-outs were Louisiana Senator (and prostitute-patronizer) David Vitter and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint. From Wordnik.com. [Jezebel] Reference
He was never a patronizer or syncophant. From Wordnik.com. [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference
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