Synonyms for talk down
talk down

Princeton's WordNet

1. talk downverb

   belittle through talk

2. talk downverb

   speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child

   "He talks down to her"

3. talk downverb

   direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio

   "the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill"

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1. Douglas Borthwick:

   People thought that the ECB would take a step back and try to talk down the rhetoric, but instead you had Nowotny come out today and say, 'You know what? The ECB is right'.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   One of the first rules is don't talk down to people, right, so I'll speak to you all right up here, exactly.

3. Joe Biden:

   I'm not joking when I say this : If Joe Biden're ever working with me and I hear Joe Biden treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise Joe Biden I will fire Joe Biden on the spot. On the spot. No if, ands or buts.

4. Hannibal Buress:

   It's even worse because Bill Cosby has the f--king smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. He gets on TV, 'Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.' Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches, 'I don't curse onstage.' Well, yeah, you’re a rapist.

5. Siddharth Astir:

   Always speak up and never talk down.