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The phrase "belittling remarks" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is making comments that make another person feel small or insignificant. For example, "The manager made a few belittling remarks to the staff members, causing some to feel discouraged."
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This book is littered with Uncle Toni's diktats, prohibitions and belittling remarks, all of which Mr Nadal explains earnestly—have a shrewd psychological purpose.
Here is a woman who professes to love her pupils yet thinks nothing about displaying pictures of the most vulnerable, accompanied by belittling remarks, from on high.
The comments following the story were damning about the companies involved, about the culture of silence and denial, and about Kreisberg's behavior, which allegedly included subjecting female colleagues to belittling remarks and uncomfortable physical situations.
Diary entries, draft document language, minutes of closed-door meetings, telephone conversations, private comments, gossip from a Ministry of Defense cocktail party, thoughtless asides, belittling remarks about colleagues and e-mail message texts have all emerged in testimony, with some of them boldly flashed onto an overhead screen.
For example, Mr. Cooperman zeroed in on what he described as the president's belittling remarks about taxing the wealthy: "If you are a wealthy C.E.O. or hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are lower than they have ever been.
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Any attempt we made to stick up for each other was aggressively shot down with "get in your lane before I par [ridicule] you too", or belittled with remarks like "cute, they got offended".
After Jean-Marie Le Pen's recent inflammatory remarks belittling the Holocaust and lauding France's Nazi-collaborationist past, it is the smiling and photogenic Maréchal-Le Pen who will be chosen by the party on Friday to replace her 86-year-old grandfather to run as head of the crucial Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in regional elections later this year.
The belittling, condescending remarks and the physical violence abusers subject their victims to leads to a sense of learned helplessness and self-doubt which make survivors fearful that they really aren't as worthy as they think they are.
Belichick construed Edwards's remark as belittling the Patriots' defense.
Don't your remarks belittle their accomplishments?
It is the harsh, belittling tone of the quoted remarks, as much as their substance, that has created a stir here.
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