belittlement
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
Years of belittlement from self-important correspondents have obviously stuck with Rosen, given what he writes about them.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 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
All very well that, but they shut their pretty eyes to real failures, or, at most, survey them with a tender air of belittlement that leaves the defeated one blind to their significance.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon
