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

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

It is because of this refusal that he has been pursued with belittlement by one Russian writer after another since his death.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert