put-down
Example Sentences
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The first Stanford was made of real students, who defy tidy put-downs of “kids these days.”
Industrial policy was for Europeans; a common put-down was that it was “dirigiste,” a French term for “directed.”
From Washington Post
"She robbed me of my independence and slowly undermined my confidence with constant little put-downs," he said.
From BBC
I might agree, but how about making a cogent argument and dismissing with the political put-downs found in his last sentence?
From Seattle Times
Fellow TV critic Emma Bullimore agrees there is "a trend for a much nicer kind of programming" these days, with shows like The Great British Bake Off a stark contrast to Cowell's "brutal" put-downs.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
