Words similar to put-down

Example sentences for: put-down

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Unlike most films about evangelicalism, it is not a condescending "put-down of redneck religion" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The most vigorous plaudits go to Duvall's performance; critics predict that it will revive his career from a slump and win him an Oscar nomination.
Nobody--not William Safire, not the Oxford English Dictionary --has concretely pinned down the origin of the word nerd . One theory traces it to a throwaway passage in Dr. Seuss' lesser-known 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo . Another considers it a variation of the 1940s put-down nerts to you , as in "nuts to you."
..,” that could have been interpreted as a put-down of the questioner, as if to say, “You stupid ignoramus!
I also consider it a put-down.
' There's a nuance of put-down, almost hostility there.