0 present participle of belittle
1 to make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important:
Speech coded as devaluing is characterized by belittling, criticism, mocking sarcasm, or derogatory or condescending language.
Sensitivity guards against belittling the importance of the duty to be overridden and ignoring the moral traces such duties continue to hold.
Examples of emotional maltreatment include belittling and ridiculing the child or exposure to severe marital violence.
She was belittling him, denying rather than acknowledging a relationship between them.
Secondly, what the monks considered to be the real threat from the secular college - the belittling of their special position.
Belittling words minimize nonhuman suffering and death.
In contrast to that, the students rated two characteristics as most important: 'being fair in grading' and 'corrects students' mistakes without belittling them' (ranked third and seventh, respectively).
We are in danger of belittling what they are doing and saying if we carry on pretending that everything is bad.
