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
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was belittlement.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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
I am a Romanoff by marriage merely, But I do feel a rare belittlement And loud laconic brow-beating herein!
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
