We can no longer show Mom in the kitchen talking down to the child.
She wanted four children; he talked her down to three.
He always explained things but never talked down to me.
Also, we never wanted the show to talk down to kids.
He just can't deal with parents and adults because he's so used to talking down to students all day.
He talked down to people, and did not much trust the public.
But it was so difficult to talk down to their level.
Because he talks down to people as a matter of course.
But come to think of it, who the hell was he to talk down to her like that?
Right from the start, there had never been any question of him talking down to her.