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talk down
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To speak condescendingly or as though the listener is inferior.
"She didn't like how he talked down to her as though she didn't understand."
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    Nearby phrases:  talk a mile a minute,  talk back,  talk dirty,  talk is cheap,  talk like an apothecary,  talk of the devil


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