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putdown - translation to russian
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")
putdown
сущ.
1) грубое отношение; грубый, унизительный ответ;
2) поступок, имеющий целью сконфузить или оскорбить.
backhanded compliment
общая лексика
сомнительный комплимент
affront
[ə'frʌnt]
существительное
[ə'frʌnt]
общая лексика
оскорбление (публичное)
обида
унижение
афронт
(публичное) оскорбление
глагол
общая лексика
оскорблять
наносить оскорбление
обиду (публично)
смутить
привести в замешательство
пристыдить
сконфузить
встретить смело
смотреть в лицо (чему-л.)
смотреть в лицо (опасности, смерти)
бросать вызов
Definition
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
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.
