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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
belittle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
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Examples
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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 Leonard A. Jason 2011
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Then when they show up en masse to protest, they are again belittled as "the angry mob".
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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
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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 Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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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 the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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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 David Hills 2010
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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 2009
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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! 2007
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Saying McConnell "belittled" the troops is a matter of interpretation and inference, and VERY subjective.
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Rebecca, Bush hasn't "belittled" evidence of global warming at all.
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