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

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

But as time passed I began to feel a sense of shame and belittlement every time I saw the photo.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2019

Henty’s was a grand influence for good in times of easy belittlement and cheap disparaging criticism of many of those elemental virtues which are nevertheless supreme in the making of a nation.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville