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belittled
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: diminished , small ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: belittle )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belittle \Be*lit"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belittled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Belittling .] To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. --T. Jefferson.
Usage examples of belittled.
While one side belittled him as a creature of the Hamiltonians, the other scorned him as a friend of Elbridge Gerry.
In almost daily attacks in the Aurora, Adams was belittled as “The President by Three Votes,” mocked again as “His Rotundity,” excoriated as a base hypocrite, a tool of the British, “a man divested of his senses.
It belittled the woman and her lawyer, which fit in with the picture Carmen had painted of the judge.
Her memory for names was not good, but she did remember being belittled.
He wished he could be more defiant, but he felt belittled by the Englishman and unable to stand up to his bullying.
In almost daily attacks in the Aurora, Adams was belittled as "The President by Three Votes," mocked again as "His Rotundity," excoriated as a base hypocrite, a tool of the British, "a man divested of his senses.