belittling

Now, I would not for a moment be understood as belittling the value of faithfulness in an employee.

Now, as some of my readers may know, I do not make a habit of belittling woman and her work.

Such promises struck him as unworthy bribes, belittling the sacrifice he came prepared to make.

Sometimes the teacher thoughtlessly contributes to the belittling of the parent in the eyes of the child.

Modern sophistication and the present-day fad of belittling everything that is interesting or pleasurable.

Feminism repudiates, from time to time, the charge against it of belittling Motherhood.

Even in later years the cartoonist did not entirely refrain from this method of belittling Mr. Cleveland's capabilities.

He had once resented a belittling remark which a schoolmate had used towards her, by soundly thrashing the urchin who uttered it.

The worth of his evidence must be discredited by belittling the disturbing witness.

In spite of his way of belittling his flying feats, Mr. Nighthawk was secretly very proud of his skill at sky-coasting.