“If this seems like a chauvinistic putdown of the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, you know they're up to far worse.”

“And the hedge comes for me in the most unloved of equity sectors – Europe, or Old Europe, according to Donald Rumsfeld's infamous putdown.”

“In November, Soviet tanks appear on the streets of Budapest to putdown the protests.”

“She had an amazing array of Wildean oneliners and putdowns that reduced the audience to hysterics.”

“He's been a never-ending source of insults and putdowns, to keep the hecklers at bay and the fans in stitches.”

“Reporters, whether familiar faces or strangers, could expect to be teased by smart aleck answers and putdowns to earnest questions.”