patronise

verb patronise

• champion — A champion is someone who has won the first prize in a competition, contest, or fight.
• condescend — If someone condescends to do something, they agree to do it, but in a way which shows that they think they are better than other people and should not have to do it.
• cultivate — If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
• deign — If you say that someone deigned to do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
• descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.