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Definition of Belittle

1. Verb. Cause to seem less serious; play down. "Don't belittle his influence"

2. Verb. Express a negative opinion of. "She disparaged her student's efforts"

3. Verb. Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of. "Don't belittle your colleagues"

Definition of Belittle

1. v. t. To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

Definition of Belittle

1. Verb. To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Belittle

1. to disparage [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES] - See also: disparage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Belittle

belikely belikes beliking belimb belime belimp belimumab belinkedness belinostat beliquor

beliquored beliquoring beliquors belirt belitter belittle (current term) belittled belittlement belittlements belittler

belittlers belittles belittling belittlingly belive beliven belives beliving belk belked

Literary usage of Belittle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"... did not succeed in securing the patronage of Leo X.|| Although, in his consuming envy, he left no effort untried to belittle Raphael, his sphere of work ..."

2. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"Ja 13 University was not intended to belittle Jewish scholarship. Washington, D, C. Je 17 President resents cross-questioning on racial segregation in ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"While we intend in no way to diminish or belittle the value of the various laboratory aids to diagnosis which have been brought forward within the last few ..."

4. The Unitarian edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1892)
"DO UNITARIANS belittle JESUS CHRIST? In an able sermon preached before the Unitarian Society of Greenfield, Mass., by the pastor, Rev. AA Brooks, May 22, ..."

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