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
He unleashed diplomats and nationalistic youths who would roar back any hint of criticism or belittlement.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 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
It must be confessed—and not to the belittlement of Sammy Pinkney—that he never would have run away to be a pirate on this occasion had it not been for Dot Kenway.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
