"put someone down" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to criticize or belittle someone or to make them feel inferior or unimportant. Example: During the meeting, my boss constantly put me down for my ideas and made me feel like I was not contributing anything valuable to the team.
The laziest way to put someone down is to call him or her an egomaniac.
Managers, coaches and players never look more foolish than when they put someone down for not having played the game.
"Just letting you know@PacSmoove @pookeo9 that using 'your gay' as a way to put someone down ain't ok! #notcool delete that out ur vocab," Bryant wrote.
They studied nearly 100 couples, focusing on the role of two forms of humor in their relationship: affiliative humor (using comments, jokes, or witty banter to make someone laugh or feel better when they're down) and aggressive humor (using sarcasm or ridicule to criticize or put someone down without regard for their feelings).
It's too easy to treat a debate as an opportunity to put someone down, rather than reach truth or do some good.
"Just letting you know@PacSmoove @pookeo9 that using 'your gay' as a way to put someone down ain't ok! #notcool delete that out ur vocab," tweeted Bryant, who was fined $100,000 in April for using a gay slur during a game.
"Putting someone down in public is not how to keep a team together," Mathis said.
If it's because you're feeling frustrated or you want to show off by putting someone down, find another topic.
the act of putting someone down, trying to make them feel low, treating someone in a horrible manner, showing a person that they mean less than nothing to you, a hurtful act that is both rude and ignorant towards another person's feeling.
Dry Tasing is not particulary effective for putting someone down; it hurts but doesn't incapacitate.
Likewise, there's a difference between criticism and putting someone down -- just because someone made a mistake you have no right belittling them or berating them.
