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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

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

British belittlement deprived him of his proper place in history; but he was really the founder of the regular Navy that fought so gallantly in '1812.'

From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton


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