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
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
Like Jones’s frog cosplay, footage of protest was widely mocked on social media, treated alternately as slapstick comedy or a tone-deaf belittlement of Holocaust victims.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2018
Because this belittlement through the method of approach is inevitable, it is all-important that the teacher should possess a supplemental dignity, replacing the oppressive sense of pettiness with stimulating intimations of high things in store.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
