TALK DOWN Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

talk down

verb

as in to dismiss

to express scornfully one's low opinion of a company that prefers to talk up its own products rather than talk down those of its competitors

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Recent Examples of talk down There’s always a chance that Fetterman’s prospective foes get talked down from the ledge. —

Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026 During his remarks, Beshear accused Vance, whose memoir explores issues such as poverty and the lack of opportunity in Appalachia and the Rust Belt, of talking down to the people of Kentucky. —

Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026 Worldfor never talking down to me or being too afraid to address the hard things in life. —

Anna Earl, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026 Mayor Johnson took the hosts of the JAAM Podcast —JJ, Allen, Abee and Matt, a group of friends from Chicago who talk about politics and culture — to walk and talk down the streets of the city's Austin neighborhood. —

Mikayla Price, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for talk down

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The court recommended that the petition be dismissed, and that the organizations be given one month to submit the employee lists.

— Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
Even the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence boom were laid by the NSF in the 1980s and 1990s, when neural networks were a backwater dismissed by mainstream computer science.

— Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026