Sentence examples for were belittled from inspiring English sources
verb
To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
Meanwhile, General McChrystal was busy placing calls to apologize to people who were belittled in the article.
Yet, while the Europeans won acclaim as trailblazers, their Egyptian contemporaries were belittled for creating ethnic art.
Workers at the unit complained that they were belittled by other agencies and their files were tampered with.
Is this one reason these auteurs were belittled for so long by the canon-makers of blues and early jazz and are overlooked by those who chronicle the lives of far more obscure rock 'n' roll pioneers?
Van Rompuy's first draft communique for the summit, envisaging a three-stage process towards a more complete monetary union, has had to be comprehensively rewritten while his proposals were belittled as a "useful input" rather than as the "basis" for the debate.
"It was interesting the way people were belittling the experience and the struggle of the period.
Though she said she no longer had those letters, she said his replies were belittling.
Even there, she continued to be belittled.
But the improvement should not be belittled.
"We have been belittled, bullied and betrayed by this administration".
