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
It was a mockery of their bravado, a belittlement of their bluff and swagger in the brief day of their oppression.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
