Example Sentences

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Cartlidge also raised "a disgraceful incident" where an employee of General Dynamics, the company making Ajax, had "belittled the injured soldiers" in social media posts.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

I told him he needed to seek comfort from someone else and that he had belittled me for years, and then I blocked him.

From Slate • May 9, 2019

And in 1998, Ramsay made headlines ejecting the critic AA Gill and his dining companion, Joan Collins, from his restaurant after Gill had belittled him in print.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2013

But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz had belittled his assessment.

From Time Magazine Archive

His execrable temper had belittled his own generosity.

From Told In The Hills by Ryan, Marah Ellis