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
Couldn’t $100 million be better spent directly helping the victims of bigotry and belittlement?
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
“It’s folksy here,” she said, stripping the word of any feeling of belittlement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 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
This I call the danger of perfection, our possible belittlement through beauty.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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