put-down

I've always thought of it as a sort of subtle put-down of native peoples, their languages, and their culture in general.

Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009

I've always thought of it as a sort of subtle put-down of native peoples, their languages, and their culture in general.

Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009

For several decades, and perhaps even now in some quarters, “Vas you dere, Charlie?” was a quick put-down for any skeptic in any situation.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Sir Alex Ferguson opted for a more subtle form of put-down, with a different target in mind.

David de Gea shrugs off his dodgy mantle to rise above the occasion 2011

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.

Spotted: an older woman on screen Anne Billson 2010

It was a very effective put-down, and some felt it turned the whole debate.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

The South, Barbour's comments and the put-down of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on civil rights laws and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell in his unrepentant praise of Confederate History Month still type the white South as a region that's still chock full of unreconstructed racists and religious and social bigots.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Barbour's Release of Scott Sisters No Shining Example of GOP's Ugly Racial Past Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011

It is an unfair generalization and a put-down not worthy of Boing Boing. coaxial replied to comment from Antinous/Moderator

9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing 2009

The South, Barbour's comments and the put-down of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on civil rights laws and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell in his unrepentant praise of Confederate History Month still type the white South as a region that's still chock full of unreconstructed racists and religious and social bigots.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Barbour's Release of Scott Sisters No Shining Example of GOP's Ugly Racial Past Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011

I was just having language games with him and he is no fool so that was not a put-down.

Reality Knocks 2009