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

Like Jones’s frog cosplay, footage of protest was widely mocked on social media, treated alternately as slapstick comedy or a tone-deaf belittlement of Holocaust victims.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2018

Of course there is no belittlement of the British part in the war among those Americans who have been brought into any close contact with it.

From Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.