"belittled" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe someone reducing the significance, importance, or stature of another person. Example: The supervisor belittled the employee in front of their colleagues, making them feel embarrassed and worthless.
But because it was Eric, you didn't feel belittled, it just made you strive to do better.
I had belittled my friend because the legendary Sour Toe Cocktail, as served in Yukon's Dawson City, could not possibly be real.
She was belittled as childlike, but it's worth recalling that this can mean straightforward too.
A Canadian study explored academic bullying behaviours in more depth, finding that having your contributions ignored, being the subject of gossip and being undermined and belittled in front of others were the behaviours most commonly experienced.
Demirtas has been the target of fierce campaign attacks by Erdogan, who belittled him a "pretty boy" who is merely a front for the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
This is a man who has belittled and betrayed his son for most of his life and who in his arrogance fails to take him seriously even when there's a crossbow involved, but Shae's murder represents a line crossed.
In Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, extreme parties of both left and right tend to gain votes when the big parties form grand coalitions in the centre.Tackling the rootsThe far right has prospered most when mainstream political parties have belittled or ignored the concerns of ordinary people about such issues as immigration.
To them, that makes the subprime losses look more like an inconvenience than a calamity.The numbers, however, should not be belittled.
Intra-ASEAN trade, boosted by an inchoate free-trade area, has boomed; ASEAN institutions (and meetings) have proliferated.ASEAN's achievements should not be belittled.
The new institutions were often belittled by other departments, who regarded them as little more than vocational colleges.
And he complained that Tony Abbott, Australia's new prime minister (pictured above with Mr Yudhoyono), had "belittled" the matter, making a statement on it without any remorse.In the campaign for the election he won in September, Mr Abbott's foreign-policy platform was summed up in two short phrases.
