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talk down something

to say that something is not very good or important. Bonds is doing everything possible to talk down his achievements. I love this town, and I don't like to talk things down, but there are some real problems here that need to be dealt with.

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context More results

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