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belittling
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in deprecative
adjective as in deprecatory
adjective as in depreciative
adjective as in depreciatory
adjective as in derogative
adjective as in derogatory
adjective as in detractive
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in scathing
adjective as in scornful
adjective as in slighting
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in meanness
Example Sentences
They would talk about things that were so awful and so belittling.
“Not somebody like Donald Trump who is constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are. America deserves better.”
She said Hagekhalil’s “preference for male colleagues/staff over me has continued to sow the seeds of sexism and belittling.”
"There was shouting at people and belittling people. The morning meeting turned into isolating and humiliating people."
Critics demonized female physicians like Madame Restell, belittling their medical knowledge and skill and the health care they provided to women in their communities.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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