belittlement
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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
He unleashed diplomats and nationalistic youths who would roar back any hint of criticism or belittlement.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
The loss of a child, precarious finances and fear of belittlement from their white neighbors confound an immigrant family from Taiwan.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019
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
In the process of enlightenment the Americans have played a conspicuous part, in spite of the persistent belittlement of the military experts in the official German Press.
From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
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