one-downmanship
A social tactic where someone tries to gain the upper hand in a conversation by…A social tactic where someone tries to gain the upper hand in a conversation by emphasizing their own inferiority, hardships, or victimhood compares to others, often to elicit sympathy or undermine rivals.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A social tactic where someone tries to gain the upper hand in a conversation by emphasizing their own inferiority, hardships, or victimhood compares to others, often to elicit sympathy or undermine rivals.
Origin
By analogy with one-upmanship.By analogy with one-upmanship.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable