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belittlement



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"There are ways of doing things that don't ostracise people or belittle them. I don't like belittlement."

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was belittlement.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

I disliked enclosure, and as I came to consciousness I objected to the belittlement of earthly life I heard too often—but not from my parents.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019

When hearing each of the disclosures above, I found myself repressing feelings of bafflement, estrangement, belittlement, irrelevance, and—because of all that repressing—rage.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2019

The reduced scale of the reproduction suggests falsity at once, a falsity whose belittlement the mind can neither forget nor forgive.

From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell




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