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US
/bɪˈɫɪtəɫ/
]
[ UK /bɪlˈɪtəl/ ]
[ UK /bɪlˈɪtəl/ ]
VERB
-
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
don't belittle your colleagues -
express a negative opinion of
She disparaged her student's efforts -
cause to seem less serious; play down
Don't belittle his influence
How To Use belittle In A Sentence
- People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
- The people who live here are belittled with irony and satire for their neat ambitions and their careful pleasures. Times, Sunday Times
- The is the very same way women are belittled by chauvinists (male and female) throughout history.
- Who is Dawkins, asks McGrath, to belittle theism when such giants of evolutionary theory did not?
- In the late 1960s and '70s, second-wave feminists, belittled in today's conservative backlash as bra-burning man-haters, paved the way for rights younger women now take for granted.
- Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
- Protesters find that their objections fall upon deaf ears; their reasons belittled and their sheer weight of numbers ignored.
- I don't want to stand and belittle people. Times, Sunday Times
- Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
- Thomas Gandow, criticized what he called the frequent belittlement of Scientology in the media and the indecision of politicians to work towards banning the organization in Germany. Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
