moralize, pander, psychoanalyze, sentimentalise, deign, sentimentalize, pretend, overpraise, sneer, adulate, scold, speechify, mythologize, philosophise, edify, cajole, mythologise, chastise, sermonise, moralise, grovels, castigate, intellectualize, insinuate, importune, coddle, reprove, patronizing, objectify, chastens, enlighten, belittle, behove, browbeat, backbite, berate, beg, coarsen, genuflect, pitying, entreat, demur, snivel, stoop, denigrate, satirise, demean, problematize, idealize, disempower, spoonfeed, deprecate, hoot, temporize, romanticize, beguile, dissimulate, philosophize, amuse, cosset, naysay, expatiate, idealise, chide, verbalise, enrapture, aggrandise, spellbind, dare, sermonize, rhapsodize, equivocate, enamor, deride, upbraid, proselytise, kvetch, male chauvinist, dissemble, cavil, overrates, humoring, admonish, crucify, peradventure, ennoble, connive, romanticise, bewitch, pussyfoot, despise, abase, faute de mieux, implore, cloy, vilify, snicker, henpecking, overact, demonize, acculturate, beseeches, compare, doth, express, hath, keep, prosper, speak, suffice, tell, think, assists, avail, bear, believe, buy, captures, confess, depart, do, employ

stoop to

act, interact, move

descend, lower oneself, patronize