unpatronizing
/ʌnˈpatrənʌɪzɪŋ
/(also unpatronising)
adjective
Not showing condescension: the lectures were delivered in an unpatronizing way...
- And the whole family can gather round the wireless for Radio Four's Go 4 It show, a varied and unpatronising mix of features for young listeners.
- As a production to launch Stagework, His Dark Materials was perfect: technically sophisticated, yet literate - exploring issues of faith, culture and identity, yet exciting and unpatronising.
- Consultants were omnipresent, explaining his condition and the treatment he was receiving in simple, but unpatronising terms, while a nurse was assigned to sit at his cot, and monitor his breathing throughout the night.
Derivatives
unpatronizingly
- Not only is it genuinely frightening, thanks in no small part to Sidney Sager's unsettling pseudo-Neolithic vocal score, but the script is unpatronisingly complex.
- His portrait of Tyneside is unpatronisingly sympathetic and he even conveys the accent convincingly.
- Things would be ok if they were consistently, and unpatronisingly administered, but who cares anymore.