belittlement

Example Sentences

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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

“It’s folksy here,” she said, stripping the word of any feeling of belittlement.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

The loss of a child, precarious finances and fear of belittlement from their white neighbors confound an immigrant family from Taiwan.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2019

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

All very well that, but they shut their pretty eyes to real failures, or, at most, survey them with a tender air of belittlement that leaves the defeated one blind to their significance.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon