| pooh-pooh(verb, scorn, spurn, belittle, despise) |
| put down(verb, expression, reject, dismiss, criticize) |
| run down(verb, expression, reduce, dismiss, criticize) |
| trivialize |
| vilipend(verb, reduce, withdraw, diminish, lower) |
| abate(verb, cut, check, reduce, diminish) |
| bad-mouth(verb, criticize, scorn, condemn, blame) |
| blister(verb, reduce, withdraw, diminish, criticize) |
| condemn(verb, criticize, blame, disparage, complain) |
| contemn(verb, reject, slight, lower, neglect) |
| criticize(verb, diminish, lower, scorn, condemn) |
| deride(verb, reject, dismiss, criticize, neglect) |
| disesteem(reduce, withdraw, diminish, lower, weaken) |
| dispraise(verb, dismiss, criticize, scorn, fault) |
| disvalue |
| dump on(expression, dismiss, criticize, scorn, condemn) |
| elide |
| knock(verb, reduce, withdraw, diminish, criticize) |
| lowball |
| make little of(expression, idiom) |