Sentence examples for a belittling from inspiring English sources

Might the banal use of a belittling word be the cause of more prejudice than pride?

Perhaps other blacks "think it's a belittling job," Mr. Smalls suggested.

It may start with a belittling comment at a staff meeting.

"I think it might embarrass Stuart to hear mice mentioned in such a belittling manner," Mrs. Little told her husband.

Life with her father "resembled a kind of boot camp, presided over by a belittling, impossible-to-satisfy drill instructor".

The place was named, with mock defiance, after a belittling characterization of Chicago by the New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling.

Perhaps most important, the bill would be a long-overdue affirmation of the fundamental value of a belittled profession.

Corrosion rate exceedingly lowered about ~ 104 times at 6 GW cm− 2 compared to other conditions with a belittled current density fluctuation over certain applied potential range due to increased roughness.

Working in a restaurant is plenty difficult without a demanding, belittling boss.

"I find that someone calling a physician 'doc' is acting in a demeaning, belittling and offensive manner.

A judge reprimanded Representative James A. Traficant Jr. for making a vulgar, belittling comment about prosecutors in his corruption trial.