How To Use Put-down In A Sentence
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The Dragons are ready to rip their dreams apart with a scathing put-down or withering look.
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Put-down humor, such as telling friends an embarrassing story about another friend, is a socially acceptable way to deploy aggression and make others look bad so you look good.
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There is a 'slagging' culture amongst my group of friends (if you ain't getting slagged you ain't nobody) and I reckon Sherlock would fit in pretty well with some of his put-downs of the trusty Watson.
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He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
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He has gained thousands of loyal fans with his witty quips and snide put-downs.
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And since it contains its share of articulate losers, it is also about mockery, the put-down, the loser's shrug("whaddya gonna do").
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I had not been able to stand his put-downs and holier-than-thou attitude.
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One of the big put-downs of the American presidential election campaign was the comment that he was 'no Jack Kennedy'.
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As a child these were the teachers who cast large shadows over my progress, or lack of it, and whose constant put-downs and disparagements made school life more miserable than it should have been.
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It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
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In a Robert Altman film that's almost bursting with superb performances, Maggie Smith shines as the Countess of Trentham, a mistress of acidulous put-downs.
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David: You may not mean it that way, but the perlocutionary effect could be the same as a put-down.
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I didn't mean it as a put-down but I could tell from her response that she took my criticism personally.
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This Internet Explorer add-on doesn't offer nearly one-third, or maybe even one-quarter, of the sheer click-on/click-off options as the original, but that's not exactly a put-down.
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The middle schoolers reported that the site helped them clarify types of pressure they had already felt - such as put-downs or rejection - but had not recognized as forms of peer pressure.
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Yet even that was subject to cynical put-downs: For some time, a graffitist with a permanent marker changed the plaque there to dedicate the plaza to "Cli-Che Guevara.
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Feeling slightly humiliated, Anna folded her arms, sat back in her chair and pouted, making no effort to disguise her anger toward his put-down.
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And they find the smug irritation and association with "dumbness" of non-black regional language, music, dress as the put-downs they are.
And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also.
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I didn't mean it as a put-down but I could tell from her response that she took my criticism personally.
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Put-down humor, such as telling friends an embarrassing story about another friend, is a socially acceptable way to deploy aggression and make others look bad so you look good.
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The whole thing was a big con,an elaborate put-down on a massive scale.
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Morrissey makes a lousy rock critic though it is hard to disagree with his put-downs.
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The whole thing was a big con,an elaborate put-down on a massive scale.
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Surgeons had become so pleased with themselves that being addressed as Mr ceased to be a put-down and became a badge of honour and distinction.
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Without ever being side - splitting he does coax out the odd laugh or two, and his experience is obvious as he works the audience expertly with little teases and the odd placid put-down.
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It is always the casual throwaway comment, rather than your most carefully timed put-down, that is likely to cause terrible offence and end a friendship.
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One of the big put-downs of the American presidential election campaign was the comment that he was 'no Jack Kennedy'.
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My generation's first exposure to Agnes Moorehead wasn't her work for Orson Welles, but when she was well into her 60s and perfecting the waspish put-down of her daughter's attempts at domesticity on a weekly basis in Bewitched.
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Fear of Flying (published in 1973), once put it: "It's often called confessional writing by male reviewers, but I think the word confessional in this instance is a put-down.
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He is not an experienced debater, given in the past to flourishes of synthetic rage at Nationalists rather than the humour and put-down his elevated status requires.
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He always savoured the chance to quash interviewers with one of his favourite put-downs: ‘Please desist from your perfervid questioning.’
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The rift with the rest of the ECB's council deepened in September when, in an interview with Bloomberg, Mr. Weber pre-empted the policy decisions of the council's next meeting, something that provoked a memorable put-down from the normally imperturbable Mr. Trichet.
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He commands this role, speaking in a frenzied bark of orders, put-downs and overwrought egomania.
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Her verbal dexterity when delivering a stream of brilliant put-downs is extremely impressive.
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Constantly bemoaning his lot, he spouts an endless supply of cruel put-downs, although few of them have much effect.
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This strange expression comes from the north of England and is used, mainly by women in my experience, as a sharp-tongued and effective put-down of a certain kind of pushy, over-confident male.
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Drunken hecklers were a different matter: the only way to handle them was to unleash a volley of abuse, humbling them with a few crushing put-downs.
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Your mate will consider this a personal put-down and will immediately move into a defensive posture.
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Her low and smoky voice must be as devastating a tool for schmoozing as it is for coruscating put-downs.
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Her verbal dexterity when delivering a stream of brilliant put-downs is extremely impressive.
The Sun
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And since it contains its share of articulate losers, it is also about mockery, the put-down, the loser's shrug("whaddya gonna do").
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When the policy is released, it should be exposed in detail, rather it being automatically put-down by some know-all columnist.
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The ease and humor that he displayed in his I-do-not-choose-to-run press conference should quiet the put-downs.
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I just thought it an odd unmeant put-down by you at the end!
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Revenge and put-downs were not in her toolkit.
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That may not explain the rise of evangelicism, though my strong guess is that it is an important factor -- and that is not a put-down of religion.
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The ultimate put-down comes when the college porter outsmarts George in logical debate.
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I think he intended it as a put-down comment.
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He has gained thousands of loyal fans with his witty quips and snide put-downs.
The Sun
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She was mistress of the withering put-down.
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She perfectly recreates the idioms and dialects of a certain sort of Manchester, and it was un-put-downable in a slightly addictive, confessional way.
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Trinidad and Tobago is a country that seems obsessed with insults, considering the many words we have to describe various forms of put-down: picong, fatigue, mamaguy.
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Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
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He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
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Put-down humor, such as telling friends an embarrassing story about another friend, is a socially acceptable way to deploy aggression and make others look bad so you look good.