Sentence examples for speak down from inspiring English sources

He didn't speak down to his children.

People working at the pantry here don't speak down to people, don't treat them as below them.

"Don't speak down to a person, don't patronise them, just learn the accent, that's all it is".

Showing respect for young viewers is as important as knowing what they want, Mr. Levin said, adding, "You must never speak down to them".

Mr. Stoute described multicultural consumers as "a very loyal audience if you come to them in the right way — if you speak to them, and not speak down to them".

"I underestimated just how frustrating, infuriating and hurtful it would feel to have strangers regularly hurl cat calls and sexual innuendos at me, or to have men speak down to me, talk over me, and sometimes even practically put on baby-talk voices when addressing me," she said.

"She spoke down to us".

I don't like being spoken down to".

I thought both candidates did a great job in not speaking down to the American people.

BANKERS, erstwhile masters of the financial universe, are not used to being spoken down to.

Will they ever consider the cultural constraint they impose on American readers by speaking down to translation?