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What (who) is putdown - definition
EXPRESSION, STATEMENT (OR SOMETIMES BEHAVIOR) WHICH IS DISRESPECTFUL OR SCORNFUL
Insults; Affront; Backhanded compliment; Insulting; Backhanded complement; Putdown; Insulted; Putdowns; Put downs; Backhanded compliments; Asteism; Back-handed compliment; Left handed compliment; Back-handed compliments; Comeback (return insult); Comeback (retort); Slights; Left-handed compliment; Offended
![Duke Karl]] Insulting the Corpse of [[Klaus Fleming]]'', [[Albert Edelfelt]], 1878. Fleming's wife [[Ebba Stenbock]] on the right.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albert Edelfelt - Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of Klas Fleming.jpg?width=200 "Duke Karl]] Insulting the Corpse of [[Klaus Fleming]]'', [[Albert Edelfelt]], 1878. Fleming's wife [[Ebba Stenbock]] on the right.")
![The use of the [[V sign]] as an insult, combined with the upwards swing movement](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uwot.jpg?width=200 "The use of the [[V sign]] as an insult, combined with the upwards swing movement")
affront
(affronts, affronting, affronted)
1.
If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it. (FORMAL)
...an incident which particularly affronted Kasparov.
VERB: V n
• affronted
He pretended to be affronted, but inwardly he was pleased...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
2.
If something is an affront to you, it is an obvious insult to you.
It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this...
= insult
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N to n
Insult
·vi To leap or jump.
II. Insult ·vt The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
III. Insult ·vt To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
IV. Insult ·vi To behave with insolence; to Exult.
V. Insult ·vt Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an Indignity.
VI. Insult ·vt To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to Abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
Affront
·noun An encounter either friendly or hostile.
II. Affront ·noun An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
III. Affront ·vt To Front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
IV. Affront ·vt To face in defiance; to Confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
V. Affront ·noun Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
VI. Affront ·vt To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
Wikipedia
Insult
An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".
Examples of use of putdown
1. She transcends the girl–as–belittling–putdown move.
2. "How am I going to answer this in a way that‘s a real putdown?" Ginsburg said.
3. I really do not feel comfortable in the role of analyzing myself." This is the kind of sly putdown that Bush performs effortlessly.
4. Whether deployed innocuously or insidiously as a substitute for a neutral word like "people," it turns a statement into a putdown, a transformation immediately noted by Rove critics.
5. This is not going well, as Previn, who manages to combine elaborate politeness with the odd steely putdown, is not slow to indicate.