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

Through Chief Dammick chiefly, but also through a host of other officials and gatekeepers, “Fargo” has been attacking a specifically masculine mode of belittlement, arrogance and unwarranted confidence this season.

From New York Times • May 31, 2017

As to being womanish: that word is no longer a term of reproach or belittlement.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins