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
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
He had an uncomfortable sense of belittlement, of having played a small part in a not altogether worthy game.
From The Missioner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
