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
Couldn’t $100 million be better spent directly helping the victims of bigotry and belittlement?
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
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
No belittlement of ourselves can appear desirable except as a step toward ultimate enlargement.
From The Nature of Goodness by George Herbert Palmer
