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
Couldn’t $100 million be better spent directly helping the victims of bigotry and belittlement?
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
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
And this physical denial or belittlement of the American continent had its mental complement in the failure to comprehend the destiny of the people which was to inhabit it.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Hawthorne, Julian
