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is belittling
verb
To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
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It is belittling.
For his part, Baraka essentially agrees with Shapiro's rebuke of Cochran Cochranan is belittling folks.
Now that the state is being sued, it is belittling the extent of the contamination.
Inside, after midday prayers, Mohammed Shafait is wondering why the government is belittling his mosque's efforts to counter extremism.
Tennessee, backed by a group of other states, is belittling the claims, and insisting it has immunity to the suit.
"People think it is belittling them and their way of life, and there is a lot of talk about it - and what can be done.
The description magical realism has been used about him, but I think that is belittling him – this isn't something he's picked up from Gabriel García Márquez, but something which is very much his own.
But threatening a legal challenge to the referendum, in the eyes of Scots, is belittling their own parliament and ignoring the historic election result that gave the SNP an overall majority.
It's all a question in English, I suppose, of differentiating between the degree to which a feminine noun can be justified on the grounds that there are two separate job markets (acting, for example) and the notion that a separate designation for women is belittling.
There can be power in serenely or playfully or proudly adopting a term that by tradition is belittling.
If a person with a disorder is belittling their partner and they leave, this is not due to the disorder.
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