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
Years of belittlement from self-important correspondents have obviously stuck with Rosen, given what he writes about them.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 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
It was their back-parlour misinterpretation and belittlement of Nature that made these modern Philistines worship her.
From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
