Crossword clues for belittling
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.
Wiktionary
n. belittlement vb. (present participle of belittle English)
WordNet
adj. tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
n. a belittling comment [syn: denigration]
the act of belittling
Usage examples of "belittling".
But in the long run when the belittling process is fully carried out nations will disappear.
The reader must have haunted the bureaus of the ministerial departments before he can realize how much their petty and belittling life resembles that of seminaries.
Well, he had gotten more than he wished for, as he hoped and yet he also dreaded that he would ever again find something as mysterious and horrifying, as wonderful and as belittling as the Dyson Sphere.
And I won't have you belittling yourself#He did a little 'tinkering' to encourage more optimism.
Holders, major and minor, had taken advantage of Fall: he remembered all too vividly the humbling and belittling work that Childon had taken great pleasure in forcing him and his family to do.
The woman who fears she cannot please men then sometimes tends to feel hostility toward them, perhaps turning her own rage and inward disappointment outward, laying the blame upon them, and developing the obvious defensive reactions of belittling sexuality and its significance, and attempting, interestingly, to become manlike herself, to be one with them, though in an aggressive, competitive manner, often attempting to best them, as though one of themselves.
This permits you to console yourself with lies and, at the same time, provides you with an excuse for despising and belittling the truly attractive woman, thinking she is merely, as you would be, if you were she, acting.
She had to stop belittling herself and pretending that her accomplishments were only the result of good fortune.
Because every one of us must die, belittling a dead man is in a way like belittling ourselves.
I recalled her many cruelties to me in my training, the many lashings of the quirt, the blows of the slave whip she had arranged for me, the blows of her small hands and fists, her kicks, her belittlings of me.