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
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
Through Chief Dammick chiefly, but also through a host of other officials and gatekeepers, “Fargo” has been attacking a specifically masculine mode of belittlement, arrogance and unwarranted confidence this season.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2017
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 Grace Brooks Hill
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