put-down
Example Sentences
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Trump, who has feuded with O'Donnell for decades, saw an opportunity for a put-down when the veteran comic's name came up during Wednesday's meeting.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
And let's not forget her iconic put-down to unwanted male attention that I'll admit to rolling out endlessly in my teens: "Ugh, as if!"
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025
It was not only her contemptuous put-down: “You have no foreign policy experience and it shows.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023
He also appeared in the 1998 remake of the monster movie “Godzilla” as the bumbling Mayor Ebert of New York — an unsubtle nod to film critic Roger Ebert, who took the put-down in stride.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023
I floundered for a killer put-down line without any stammer words in it.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
