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belittling
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in deprecative
adjective as in deprecatory
adjective as in depreciative
adjective as in depreciatory
adjective as in derogative
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in detractive
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in scathing
adjective as in scornful
adjective as in slighting
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in meanness
Example Sentences
They are like belittling husbands who think better of their wives only after they alter them with weight loss and a new wardrobe.
His extreme vitriol focused intensely on degrading and mocking Muslims, belittling their place in the Middle East.
What is truly degrading is her denial of Jewish refugee rights and belittling of Jewish suffering.
Williams gets booed when he says that Gingrich calling Obama “the food-stamp president” is belittling.
Many in the media serve as enablers with subtle but insidious belittling of conservatives.
This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was.
He is weary both of dissipation and of the youthful frivolities 169 which are injuring and belittling him.
Far from belittling Descartes, as I much desire to repeat, this rather makes him the greater.
We were unable to find any of those selfish and belittling springs of action which rob great deeds of more than half their glory.
Why will you insist on belittling everything that you have done?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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