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
Couldn’t $100 million be better spent directly helping the victims of bigotry and belittlement?
From Washington Post • May 1, 2022
He unleashed diplomats and nationalistic youths who would roar back any hint of criticism or belittlement.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 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
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 Lowell, Percival
