Sample Sentences forbelittle (editor-reviewed)
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He needs to learn to disagree without belittling his opponent.belittling = treating as unimportant
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The gradualness of the change does not belittle its importance.belittle = make smaller (importance)
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My focus on the Industrial Age in no way belittles the preceding progress.belittles = treats as unimportant
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It's that whole 'play like a girl' mind-set the male gender uses to belittle women, when we have as much athleticism as they do. (source)belittle = make seem less important
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Others were so full of themselves that they'd belittle their partners. (source)belittle = make them seem less important
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...they are sick men now.... But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anyway. For myself? Guilt. Shame. Fear. Self-belittlement. (source)belittlement = to make someone or something seem less important
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People often belittle the place where they were born. (source)belittle = make seem less important
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You just knew, by the expression on her face, the steely narrowing of her eyes, the heavy, enunciated sighs that could be so belittling that words, any words, seemed preferable to them. (source)belittling = making someone or something seem less important
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They belittled us, called us silly names.† (source)
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It had not been her intention, but in her suggestion there seemed to be a belittlement, a setting herself above, as if my being unlettered defined my agency and character.† (source)
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But so far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds,—so far as he, the South, or the Nation, does this,—we must unceasingly and firmly oppose them.† (source)
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Belittlers kept opinions to selves after that.† (source)
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Red had started noticing that any time it was a girls-only gathering, Pookie had a tendency to speak of Trey belittlingly.† (source)
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He said, apologetically: "Dave, I wasn't meaning to belittle that science; I was only chaffing —chattering, I reckon I'd better say." (source)belittle = to make something seem less important
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I would not think of coming into your home, or into your church, and belittling your beliefs, though I disagree profoundly with them. (source)belittling = making something seem less important
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It has screamed at me, mocked me, belittled me, threatened me, cursed me.† (source)
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