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
“It’s folksy here,” she said, stripping the word of any feeling of belittlement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 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
Of course there is no belittlement of the British part in the war among those Americans who have been brought into any close contact with it.
From Fields of Victory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
