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
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
This often banded about phrase of belittlement, where someone states the truth is “suspected” or accused of wearing a tin foil hat, and/or “talking to light switches”, or even “kippers in the fridge” … .. Welcome ‘Times’ Readers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Sometimes they belittle people, which I think is rather sad. The Sun
And Dyche is hoping people continue to belittle his side as he says it puts pressure on their rivals. The Sun
Selina was tired, she was cranky and she was becoming tired of her coach's belittlement.
It makes no sense to belittle the enormity of the disaster which has occurred.
Saying McConnell "belittled" the troops is a matter of interpretation and inference, and VERY subjective. GOP Senate Leader McConnell Appears To Belittle Deaths Of American Troops
In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual.
The papers go out of their way to misgender and belittle, replacing every correct gender reference with one that seems calculated to humiliate.
The work was wonderful, but my boss was a bully and a belittler.
However, your stepson may not be dependent and without wanting to seem to belittle your worries I take drink-driving very seriously is your assessment accurate? Problem solved
How dare this smart-alec belittle one of our greats. The Sun
Sometimes they belittle people, which I think is rather sad. The Sun
People belittle us because we are little. Christianity Today
This tripe, trivia and tosh poisons British politics and belittles us all
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
Whoever overlooks or belittles this point will commit Right opportunist mistakes.
I don't want to stand and belittle people. Times, Sunday Times
The presence of cameras staring at the terrace and into the street below does not belittle the stunning view from the roof.
We belittle ourselves in the sight of God and men, bemean ourselves in the presence of the moral law, and stay more or less our progress in the great educational work of life. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanh
Rebecca, Bush hasn't "belittled" evidence of global warming at all. Egg meets the sidewalk
It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world.
Figures show how important it is to build on this industry, yet a lot of people tend to belittle these activities. Times, Sunday Times
People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
He fought with troops that had no commissary; battled with superstition; and saw his name belittled by those he sought to serve. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
Negative people tend to belittle what you are doing. Positive people often try to encourage what you are doing. Dr T.P.Chia
This caught me off guard as this language is usually associated with the belittlers and begrudgers who are endemic in society.
Many of her normal responsibilities had been taken away from her as a result of her pregnancy, and her colleagues' once respectful treatment had shifted to subtle and not-so-subtle belittlement. The 'Deep, Deep Hurt' Of Working Mothers
McHenry, who has no military experience, uses the occasion to "belittle" security personnel for properly carrying out their duties in a war zone and to bolster his image by exaggerating the extent of danger he was facing. WN.com - Articles related to West Bengal notifies amnesty for Maoists
Figures show how important it is to build on this industry, yet a lot of people tend to belittle these activities. Times, Sunday Times
And Dyche is hoping people continue to belittle his side as he says it puts pressure on their rivals. The Sun
The low point of self defeating activism came at a Radio City Music Hall fundraiser at which Chevy Chase said the president had the intellect of an "egg timer" John Mellencamp called Bush a "cheap thug" and Meryl Streep, in a performance that brings new meaning to the word sanctimonious, belittled the president's faith. Hullabaloo
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
Harken, Bauheen, to what I shall deliver to you, and never afterwards let a word pass your lips in belittlement of Patrick. St Patrick's Day
Now they want to belittle and divide us by unmeaningful and trivial talks of pillars and temple, some seem even Obsessed by it. Back By Popular Demand: John Kerry!
Berlin is sharper still on his own thin-skinned self. He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.
In this, great numbers of caves are hollowed out, and carvings are seen which suggest architectural forms, though on a scale so grand that architectural terms belittle them. Canyons of the Colorado
He was someone else entirely; he sneered at me, belittled me and found every excuse to tear apart anything I liked.
Sometimes they belittle people, which I think is rather sad. The Sun
Some people lie to boost their low self- esteem; some people lie to project their superiority. Some people lies to please or make others feel good; some people lie to belittle or hurt others. Some people lie to avoid responsibility or punishment; some people lies to achieve success or to seek personal gains. Dr T.P.Chia
They seem to fear it; they consistently belittle and mock performance poets, perhaps because much of the poetry written for the page has become quite inaccessible to the ear if not the eye.
So, if I hurt your feelings - I do apologize, but it was not my intention to 'belittle' Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News
Sometimes they belittle people, which I think is rather sad. The Sun
Some people lie to boost their low self- esteem; some people lie to project their superiority. Some people lies to please or make others feel good; some people lie to belittle or hurt others. Some people lie to avoid responsibility or punishment; some people lies to achieve success or to seek personal gains. Dr T.P.Chia
During the campaign, Nieves frequently took to the local radio airwaves to "belittle" Bell, STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
When the footprints made by the shoes are not readily confused with the shoes themselves, what Negritude has also achieved can never be belittled.
I am also provoked to wonder about the moral framework of someone who belittles his friends in public.
We mustn't belittle her outstanding achievement.
Shall not belittle underrate and condemn other company's products while promoting BSC.
And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time?
The country artist dismissively belittles Rose's talent, and demands that she never record another of his tunes.
Figures show how important it is to build on this industry, yet a lot of people tend to belittle these activities. Times, Sunday Times
To apply critical criteria derived from careful and extensive study of literary history and aesthetic precepts is not to belittle the reader's own standards but to encourage the reader to engage with that history and those precepts and apply them as well -- an activity that will always have a "subjective" character to it. Principles of Literary Criticism
Marsha Jordan filleted with disgust those Americans whom Matthews defends, those who belittle "spics" and fought to exclude Chicanos from Aurora and Chicago society for fear of change. Chris Matthews Defends Racists on Hardball
Negative people tend to belittle what you are doing. Positive people often try to encourage what you are doing. Dr T.P.Chia
don't belittle your colleagues
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
To vilify the ancient and heavenly act of smoking is to belittle one of life's most wicked and pleasurable of indulgences.
People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.
Unless it's a family heirloom, most people feel belittled by a regift.
I don't want to stand and belittle people. Times, Sunday Times
People belittle us because we are little. Christianity Today
But Chris Gardner, a Washington County commissioner who attended Monday's event, said in a phone interview it would be wrong to "belittle" any permanent jobs that are created in that part of Maine. BangorDailyNews.com > News
Some people lie to boost their low self- esteem; some people lie to project their superiority. Some people lies to please or make others feel good; some people lie to belittle or hurt others. Some people lie to avoid responsibility or punishment; some people lies to achieve success or to seek personal gains. Dr T.P.Chia
If one is in France and one wishes to roil within the French the deepest, muddiest waters of prejudice and stereotype, one must be prepared to belittle their Frenchness. The Fiddler in the Subway
In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual.
Patients thought the name belittled the seriousness of the condition and argued that it placed too much emphasis on fatigue when the illness is also typified by severe symptoms such as memory loss. An Illness That's Hard To Live With—Or Define
We want to act as a helper and an empowerer, not a belittler or an enforcer
The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.
I have learnt never to underestimate the worth of young people, nor to ridicule or belittle them.
People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
If the only way works of literature can usefully be brought into the classroom or the pages of academic journals is to examine them for their "social constructions", or to expressly belittle mere aesthetic questions, in my opinion, as I've said here before, the best thing for literature would be to remove it from academic curricula altogether. Literary Study
He simply describes the scene of sitting with his brothers in their truck and watching the cruel belittlement play out. Richard B. Woodward: We The Animals: Novel Of The Year?
And to speculate on why he did this would be a belittlement, I guess, by me, to do that, and I'm not going to do that. Terry Thompson, Ohio Man Who Freed Exotic Animals, Was Deep In Debt, Took In Unwanted Pets
A small but not insignificant detail is that the "Internationale" sung by the Chinese students in June was also a product of that French Revolutionary tradition belittled by O'Brien. Librarian's Holiday
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a long history of belittlement and exploitation.
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice was monotone, clearly not enjoying his belittlement.
Frenchman; this belittler of nobles who is not a gentleman. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
Wilson and Meaker both depict her as icy, needy and eager to belittle Highsmith.
And she would belittle people with her technospeak to make them look stupid.
I find it distressing to see in a lot of the news coverage of this issue, how it has forced women to belittle other women's mothering.
I don't want to stand and belittle people. Times, Sunday Times
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
We mustn't belittle her outstanding achievement.
And Dyche is hoping people continue to belittle his side as he says it puts pressure on their rivals. The Sun
What is it that I, wholly unreliable narrator, belittler of common customs, frenetic workhorse, a mixture of dash-punk here and there, an ideological specimen or perhaps a political curiousity to be left as a scabrous object in the cabinet, must promise? Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
Her father bullies and belittles her - which may be why she takes a liking to Peter.
Directed and developed by Brader's wife, Suzanne Bachner, this monologue traces a childhood history of bed wetting, beatings, blame, and belittlement. George Heymont: Stiff Upper Lips
He became what he called the martinet, someone who belittled and mocked the officers that he initially treated as his friends. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
She belittled me in front of other team members, was extremely sarcastic and passive aggressive towards me.
Then, the psychological games and emotional belittlement began.
There is sometimes in us a perverse refusal to accept or to believe in good, a deep-seated, hardened refusal which belittles or despises good.
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
Some people lie to boost their low self- esteem; some people lie to project their superiority. Some people lies to please or make others feel good; some people lie to belittle or hurt others. Some people lie to avoid responsibility or punishment; some people lies to achieve success or to seek personal gains. Dr T.P.Chia
One to watchLiverpool target Antonio Cassano – says Sampdoria should back down from a threat to terminate his contract after he "belittled" president Riccardo Garrone. Said & Done
It is not in our nature to disparage the city we love or belittle the real successes that are made by our opponents as they did to us over the last three years.
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.
Don't belittle her piano playing just because you're jealous.
A man that don't respect his mother is lost to all decency; a man who will hear her name belittled is a Judas, and a man who will call his mother Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is the victim of "a sustained campaign in the media" and inaccurate media reports that "belittle" him, the ruling party said on Tuesday. Muti
Traditional radical actions like sit-ins, mass protest, even riots are belittled as ‘spectacles with radium half-lives’.
You even bounced it back to me asking if I would get some type of joy in seeing Richard Dawkins 'beliefs being' belittled '. Bunny Wins!
She was known as a tough negotiator who could turn on adversaries tempted to belittle her. Times, Sunday Times
Figures show how important it is to build on this industry, yet a lot of people tend to belittle these activities. Times, Sunday Times
I don't want to stand and belittle people. Times, Sunday Times
Though she had spent hours fixing the computer he belittled her efforts.
But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods.
People belittle us because we are little. Christianity Today
And Dyche is hoping people continue to belittle his side as he says it puts pressure on their rivals. The Sun
Though she had spent hours fixing the computer he belittled her efforts.
The privileged person avoids or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much through pride as through interest. The Ancient Regime
Then when they show up en masse to protest, they are again belittled as "the angry mob". Stacking the deck (Jack Bog's Blog)
It was belittled in advance as being devoid of a single three-year-old colt of true distinction. Times, Sunday Times
Not long ago, I met a man -- fit, single, and young -- who began to grumble to me of the hardships of his "funkhole" in England, and, incidentally, to belittle the hardships of the man at the front. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors. Brene Brown
Sir Henry Royce belittled leisure activities such as golf and tennis.
Roestorf further maintained that the commission proceedings should not be used to "belittle" any person testifying before it. ANC Daily News Briefing
He took a perverse pleasure out of trying to belittle people around him. Times, Sunday Times
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
Easy to forget, to belittle, to sideline the human beings - 'wetware', in the horrid phrase. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes they belittle people, which I think is rather sad. The Sun
People belittle the victim, which is awful. Times, Sunday Times
The point is to tantalize the public and belittle the administration. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
We patronised, belittled and ignored these countries' expertise. Times, Sunday Times
In the north-east, chav or charver is not, as she implies, exclusively used by middle or upper-class people to belittle their supposed social inferiors, but is often used by people of the same socioeconomic group to refer to antisocial elements within that group, the point being that "chav" denotes a lifestyle choice rather than a class. Letters: On the fault lines of fractured Britain
It is another top attraction; the lure of steam is not to be belittled!
Cloistered in boardinghouses, oppressed by poverty, belittled as weak and helpless by society, they fought back. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street
Cameron is welcome to think that when I said "depreciated" (to belittle) I meant "deprecate" (to express disapproval of) but he happens to be wrong. The Chestertons
And Dyche is hoping people continue to belittle his side as he says it puts pressure on their rivals. The Sun
People belittle us because we are little. Christianity Today
I expected something like a slap, or maybe some sort of words of belittlement.
Eric Lott and other scholars have argued that expressions of antiblack racism by Irish Americans—such as the lynchings of blacks during the New York City draft riots of 1863, or their invention of the word coon, or the deliberate attempts by some to belittle blacks in minstrel performances—were efforts to hide “their resemblance, in both class and ethnic terms, to ‘blackness.’” A Renegade History of the United States
Figures show how important it is to build on this industry, yet a lot of people tend to belittle these activities. Times, Sunday Times
A poor but honest man is not to be belittled.
She felt her husband constantly belittled her achievements.
This is not to belittle deliberate training, for without wood there can be no flame.
Taiwan must not be marginalized, belittled or treated as a locality, he said.
It's not like you to belittle legitimate concerns from a distinct ethnocultural space.
Negative people tend to belittle what you are doing. Positive people often try to encourage what you are doing. Dr T.P.Chia
I bet Wedge is a yeller and belittler in the clubhouse. Undefined
I don't think it's fair to belittle the efforts of so many scientists and engineers simply because the end vehicle may prove to be inviable.
Eric Lott and other scholars have argued that expressions of antiblack racism by Irish Americans—such as the lynchings of blacks during the New York City draft riots of 1863, or their invention of the word coon, or the deliberate attempts by some to belittle blacks in minstrel performances—were efforts to hide “their resemblance, in both class and ethnic terms, to ‘blackness.’” A Renegade History of the United States
Don't belittle his influence
His wife, Lori, belittles his obsession and ridicules his dreams.
He is belittled as a race baiter and attention seeker.
If you belittle their opinions or dismiss their problems, they'll stop talking to you.
And for the record, I strive to be an equal opportunity belittler of poorly written, philosophically vacant, socially inexcusable prose. Chick-lit strikes back
He does not dismiss or belittle the gifts and talents that his Creator endowed to him.
It is the fashion among the cognoscenti to belittle the glorious history and traditions of this island and its people.
But what had disturbed Jill even more than the demerit was the failure of the colleague present at her belittlement to speak a single word in her defense. Bladewire - Washington Blade
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors. Brene Brown
They strove with their full strength against those conditions panegyrized and poetized by the smirking optimists of their time, and thereby incurred the enmity of pedants and self-sufficient purists, -- were denounced and denied, belittled and belied. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
She constantly criticizes and belittles the husband in screaming tones.
People belittle us because we are little. Christianity Today
Still, the repellent fetidity had a familiar, fraternal theme that reminded him of his belittled, abused, and forlorn youth. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

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