How to Use belittle in a Sentence

belittle

verb

• The critic belittled the author's work.
• Her detractors are in the habit of belittling her accomplishments.
• At the time, some leaders found his comments belittling and a bad message.
  — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
• Maybe liberals should try to engage the argument without belittling the person.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
• Simone Martini, sometimes belittled as a maker of pretty court confections, emerges here as an artist of drama and depth.
  — Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2024
• But limiting the discussion to that amazing instrument belittles the other talents, and the overall legacy, of a man who was such a giant in so many senses of the word.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
• And not to belittle all of those things, but big picture?
  — Nick Kosmider, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
• The first step is to avoid belittling them, Swami says.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2019
• Besides, he or she would not have known which 49ers’ home city to mock and belittle.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• Don’t belittle or beat up on people who don’t want to wear a mask.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Daisy’s mother belittled her as a child, telling her that no one wants to hear her voice.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• But after nine years of his anger and belittling, Jean left.
  — Jeffrey Ann Goudie, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Throughout our years in this country it has been used to scorn and belittle us.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• For the bookish Bäumer the finest thing that arose out of the war—and could never be belittled—was comradeship.
  — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• At work and elsewhere, there are people who bring out the worst in us, belittle us, or just bring us down.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
• Along the way, the women are bullied, belittled and even battered by the movie men who surround them.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2018
• In that role, I have been harassed, assaulted, and belittled, and had to fight harder for my place in the world.
  — Annie Tritt, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
• Many on both the right and left are either mocking or belittling his legacy (or his prospects over the next nine months).
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
• Just a few idioms belittle height, such as having your head in the clouds or looking down your nose.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
• Sydney spins this to mean that Maria is belittling how Madina feels, and Joey needs to know.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2024
• Don’t belittle someone who is at least trying to make the world better.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• In 1990, that a woman in her mid-twenties would address a belittling man in this way felt startling and new.
  — Ann Powers, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
• That freedom gives Kang the right to exercise free speech and belittle the action taken to raise our flag.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
• Bella, who some may think drinks too much, blames and belittles herself.
  — Ashley Lee, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2020
• Nor is Iris the only victim: Her two sisters are belittled as well.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• This critique has often been used to belittle pop groups.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• When this conversation gets back to your daughter and wife, you will be belittled and blamed.
  — Ask Amy, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2019
• Instead of belittling herself over the size change, Lockwood was proud of her progress, but her agency at the time felt the opposite.
  — Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
• There were defensive ones, belittling ones, a screaming one and some who cared.
  — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2018
• At work, his boss, Mr. Carsvile, also demeaned and belittled him.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024