putdown

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I'm giving Ifill a point for the putdown, which I'll illustrate with this guy banging a loud gong.

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  1. noun Slang A dismissal or rejection, especially in the form of a critical or slighting remark: "Such answers were, perhaps still are, a . . . form of put-down to the questions of white people” (Lillian Hellman).

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  • So very shortly after LaGuerta's masterful putdown, the meeting broke up and we were in the hall again. —  DarklyDreamingDexter
  • "That was so last year," interrupted Bennett, her putdown rubbing in the fact that National was now the Government.
  • "Rosenbaum's piece is definitely a putdown but I don't really see it as vicious or scandalous," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Every time Joe Biden levels that retard with a devastating putdown or fact that she cannot even begin to retort, I will score one INCIDENT OF CANDY BEING TAKEN FROM A BABY. —  Thunder Matt's Saloon
  • I'm giving Ifill a point for the putdown, which I'll illustrate with this guy banging a loud gong. —  Thunder Matt's Saloon
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