| Green, one of the most flamboyant figures in the world of retailing, was characteristic in his put-down. |
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| In almost anyone else's mouth those words would have been a put-down remark of a not very agreeable kind. |
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| But then Betjeman always enjoyed name-calling and was a great one for the put-down. |
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| Caustic wit and the clever put-down are effective and useful weapons in political debate. |
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| The broadstroke put-down of dissenters and the accompanying lop-sided press coverage is a stalwart debating tactic. |
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| He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down. |
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| This remark was meant as a put-down, but I never took it that way. |
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| Surgeons had become so pleased with themselves that being addressed as Mr ceased to be a put-down and became a badge of honour and distinction. |
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| In Distant Intimacy they are never more amusing than when in put-down mode. |
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| When the policy is released, it should be exposed in detail, rather it being automatically put-down by some know-all columnist. |
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| Feeling slightly humiliated, Anna folded her arms, sat back in her chair and pouted, making no effort to disguise her anger toward his put-down. |
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| The ultimate put-down comes when the college porter outsmarts George in logical debate. |
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| I just thought it an odd unmeant put-down by you at the end! |
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| He is not an experienced debater, given in the past to flourishes of synthetic rage at Nationalists rather than the humour and put-down his elevated status requires. |
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| It is always the casual throwaway comment, rather than your most carefully timed put-down, that is likely to cause terrible offence and end a friendship. |
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| When he called you a know-it-all, he meant it as a put-down. |
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| So much fresher to seethe for a week before cranking out a sub-playground put-down that would have been edited out of the broadcast on witlessness grounds in the first place. |
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| Will Andrew Mitchell's calling a policeman a pleb and his subsequent PS3million legal bill become the most costly, toffeenosed, snobbish put-down in history? |
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