downrate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of downrate
Example Sentences
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Larner also detects in McCarthy "a deep-seated bitterness, which made him downrate individuals even as he was calling for a national policy of generosity."
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Currently these proposals for another Government agency are downrated because the agency would have to undergo the lengthy labor pains of its own birth before it could even effectively contemplate the problems of space.
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He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller.
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