Sentence examples for punches down from inspiring English sources

"Oftentimes, Mr. Trump punches down," she told me.

Comedy is at its worst when it "punches down" and humiliates the vulnerable because they happen to be different.

He went on, "Because Donald Trump is normally a giant asshole who punches down, the one time that he does it up to the Pope then we say it's O.K.

Real rudeness, like terrible comedy, punches down: it's why the image of a neurosurgeon having a hissy fit at a nurse makes Erez's data so unpleasant to process, but calling out my boss as a sociopath is fine.

His protagonist is a supreme aesthete risen from the petite bourgeoisie to cultivate an aristocratic taste for pleasure and murder and who, from the high perch of his ravenous refinement, satirically punches down at the narrow-minded masses manipulated into moralism by their self-interested overlords.

Sangakkara punches down into the vacant region down the ground for three, forcing Plunkett to field it off of his own bowling.

Don't punch down.

Punching down is one thing.

Do not punch down or knead dough at any time.

Rock punched down a couple times in disappointing ways.

Nowadays most people understand those jokes to be slut-shaming, punching down, don't they?