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belittle
/ bɪˈlɪtəl /
verb
- to consider or speak of (something) as less valuable or important than it really is; disparage
- to cause to make small; dwarf
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Derived Forms
- beˈlittler, noun
- beˈlittlingly, adverb
- beˈlittlement, noun
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Other Words From
- be·little·ment noun
- be·littler noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
And he is probably right to belittle the current round of talks.
Hand it off to a hen-pecked husband or a put-upon assistant and it can demean or belittle.
Yet, Western intelligence tends to belittle them as a bunch of bluffers.
The Fox News host seemed to belittle Laura Ingraham during an on-air clash about same-sex marriage.
This is not a time to complain about or belittle this shift, or, as with Kotkin, to pretend that it is not even taking place.
She was very woman, and the look of the thing was not nice to her eyes, while it must belittle her in theirs.
This is supposed to refer to an altercation between these two gods, in which they tried to belittle each other.
The man who shuns realities because they belittle him is on the wrong road; he is hopelessly lost from the beginning.
When they have won the praise of men, pride leads them on to belittle the work of other men and to applaud their own.
Weve278 been thundered at, frightened, cursed, and every agency has united to belittle us in our own eyes.
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