belittle
verb (used with object)
to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.
belittlement
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a word derived from
belittle.
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
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was belittlement.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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
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
Swinburne, however, was a great musician in verse and beyond belittlement in this regard.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
