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  • noun Plural form of belittlement.

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Examples

  • The linguistic turn is the most recent slight against man after the belittlements that he experienced through Copernicus, Darwin and Freud.

    Alexander Goerlach: Truth, Opinion, and Jesus Alexander Goerlach 2011

  • The linguistic turn is the most recent slight against man after the belittlements that he experienced through Copernicus, Darwin and Freud.

    Alexander Goerlach: Truth, Opinion, and Jesus Alexander Goerlach 2011

  • The linguistic turn is the most recent slight against man after the belittlements that he experienced through Copernicus, Darwin and Freud.

    Alexander Goerlach: Truth, Opinion, and Jesus Alexander Goerlach 2011

  • Gone were the paranoia, the accusations, the belittlements, the bitter rage of judgment, her look of fear.

    F-ing Genius 2010

  • Vincent's perfect afterschool TV cocoon became his haven from the daily onslaught of pokes, insults, belittlements, physical threats and mental abuse he was subjected to at school.

    Tom Gregory: Vincent James Arcuri: Cheering to the Beat of a Different Drummer 2009

  • And Stahl with his cowardly warnings and belittlements set fear, thus, in the place of free acceptance.

    The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • My experiences and impressions are here set down, and may have some small effect in counteracting those mischievous misunderstandings and mutual belittlements which are eagerly fomented by our cunning enemy.

    A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • And no doubt through all this intricate discussion certain belittlements have been acknowledged, though these have also been shown to lie along the path of largeness.

    The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887

  • & to wave their so-called power cards (poverty sanctions, racist belittlements, imprisonment & destructive weapons) over our heads & over the heads of all of the world.

    Countercurrents.org 2009

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