belittered

Parks and open areas within the metropolis and out from it are often crowded, trampled, and belittered during most times when people can get away from making a living to visit them, and thus can furnish only a little of the quiet and elbow room that might be their main contribution to urban peace of mind.

The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

He remembered how on one occasion he had been reading some Browning to her and Helen, in Helen's crowded belittered drawing-room, which seemed all piano and photographs and lilies of the valley.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

He remembered how on one occasion he had been reading some Browning to her and Helen, in Helen's crowded, belittered drawing-room, which seemed all piano and photographs and lilies of the valley.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

A maidservant was lighting guests across the belittered courtyard with a flaring candle.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

She sat herself down on one of the two chairs, and, taking off her hat, she threw it from her on to the belittered table with a passionate gesture.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

To which I may add, as another example of that tentative, that appealing twitch of the garment of Roman association of which one kept renewing one's consciousness, the half-hour at the little foundry itself was all charming -- with its quite shabby and belittered and ramshackle recall of the old

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

Narrow, noisy, shabby, belittered and encumbered, filled with clatter and chatter, the Hôtel de France would have been described in perfection by Alphonse Daudet.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

The place had been left in the befouled and belittered condition which marks the passage of the military after they have broken camp, and it would offer but a melancholy welcome to the regiment that was about to take possession.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

However, reasonable men will be contented with a house belittered with straw, and will dispense with dust itself, whilst the house is sweeping, because it hath uncleanness, in order to cleanness.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

Excepting when his occasional nervous contortions brought about disarray, there was a certain precision in his attire curiously at variance with the unsightly disorder around; especially in the belittered Ghetto, forward of the main-mast, wholly occupied by the blacks.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855