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Meanings of belittling in anglès
espanyol
despectivo Tending to diminish or disparage.
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Examples for "deprecating"
Examples for "deprecating"
1
It's a bit of a problem, she laughed in a self-deprecating fashion.
2
He's self-deprecating and quick-witted enough to keep the action breezing right along.
3
For all the shared self-deprecating glee, nobody really knows what to expect.
4
It was self-deprecating, sometimes angry, often witty - and a great success.
5
At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my pratfall.
1
Jim, at 60, has a careful, self-deprecatory way with him these days.
2
The confidential clerk shook his head in a deprecatory way, and smiled.
3
On Saturday Keegan made all the right self-deprecatory noises in the interviews.
4
A deprecatory smile flitted across the long, thin face of the attorney.
5
He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
1
The society of the place revenges itself upon us for slighting it.
2
And the Bishop had treated her with a singular and slighting coldness.
3
There has been mischief done by slighting criticism and by inconsiderate words.
4
I had been beaten, degraded, and treated with slighting when I complained.
5
She made, with her small white hand, a slight and slighting gesture.
1
Sets of laudatory or depreciatory adjectives are employed in the same way.
2
But then, that is not depreciatory of his power and eloquence-surelynot.
3
They are just as timid, shy, and self-depreciatory as before entering.
4
He sought by depreciatory remarks to keep the conversation at its proper adult level.
5
And she was very modest about Mr. Kendricks' attentions, and so self-depreciatory that, well-
1
Her remarks were merely deprecative and full of pity.
2
I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.
3
But his precision and appearance of keen prosperity and sufficiency made me act, in spite of myself, deprecative.
4
In personal appearance he was a sort of Emerson gone to weed... he walked about with a quick, perky, deprecative step....
1
This was characteristic of him-everdepreciative of self, and rejoicing in other men's labours.
2
Spade made a depreciative mouth, raising his eyebrows.
3
He lifted a depreciative shoulder.
Usage of belittling in anglès
1
Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
2
He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
3
I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
4
He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
5
Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
6
A woman must understand that she lowers herself by belittling her sisters.
7
Then his voice changed to that of a man belittling his misfortunes.
8
He didn't like being contradicted or interfered with while belittling his daughter.
9
Weaver Veranoa Hetet agreed and said she found the Defence Force claim belittling.
10
The belittling view of men in power fits best our self-esteem.
11
When Freddy didn't conform to that world view, Fred responded by belittling him.
12
His face had shifted into intense concern, no belittling this problem.
13
The belittling, malicious note in Ashe's manner had been clear enough.
14
When Pet told Kedzie something belittling about somebody big Kedzie felt herself enlarged.
15
I felt him drawing me, overcoming my hesitation, belittling my fear of ridicule.
16
Why will you insist on belittling everything that you have done?
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