Minimisation or minimization is a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalisation/rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible.
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Examples for "belittle "
1 Attempts to belittle it are dangerous, allowing the tumour to spread unchecked.
2 Despite what the R&A thought, I never set out to belittle them.
3 The mood in our countrymen has been overmuch to belittle things American.
4 They were not men to belittle the powers of the wonderful Baron.
5 But she did not belittle herself in any such tendernesses of regret.
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 .
1 They are also advocating for pill testing and other harm minimisation services.
2 Designing cabin products with waste minimisation in mind can also help, he says.
3 The EPA report is highly critical of attempts at waste minimisation .
4 They are also asking for their parties to make plastic waste minimisation a priority.
5 He said Russia advocates bilateral agreements with offshore jurisdictions aimed at curbing illegal tax - minimisation schemes.
1 Some analysts criticized earlier tests for underplaying the scale of banking problems.
2 Indeed, the veteran actor nearly steals the evening with his sly underplaying .
3 In contrast to Firth's underplaying , the directing has its overblown, operatic soul.
4 At the time, this underplaying of a central historical moment seemed wrong to me.
5 Much of development theory clings to an economic vision of growth, underplaying the emotional.
1 You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry.
2 Germany's justice minister accused Trump of trivializing anti-Semitism and racism.
3 In other words, why are you people trivializing a serious matter with your sixth grade analysis?
4 I don't we're trivializing in any way by writing about anything whether it's nonfiction or fiction.
5 In no way is it trivializing anything.
1 Hurtling downward in a crouch to minimalize vulnerable areas, they attack and hopefully sweep past each other, snatching the opponent's scarf.
2 Minimalize and set yourself free.
3 The overbite had been minimalized by braces, and by the time Joyce was fifteen she'd trimmed down to look like Barbie on steroids.
4 It also minimalized factionalism, since there was no point making promises to win over key constituencies if one was to be chosen by lot.
1 But government ministers from both parties are playing down any potential disagreement.
2 Legal sources in Northern Ireland are playing down the alleged IRA link.
3 The amount of talented players I've seen playing down here is amazing.
4 Other Franco-Chinese players were playing down any effects of the anti-French boycott.
5 Rosberg has also succeeded in playing down his gilded youth in Monaco.
1 I'm not making light of him pushing our father down the stairs.
2 I resented Snow making light of the monster who'd controlled Ric's childhood.
3 He is, if he thinks anyone is making light of his name.
4 Very gently the doctor told him, making light of his temporary weakness.
5 Second of all: I don't appreciate you making light of this.
1 Boston's Sean Kuraly fell down playing the puck behind his net.
2 You don't bring Chelsea and United down playing Uriah Heep.
3 Afterwards, Flanagan admitted: If I missed those three putts, I was one down playing 17.
4 Just don't run the batteries down playing Jedi Knights.
5 He was down playing by the edge of the river when a piece of the bank caved in and splashed him.
6 Old Cady Graves paced up and down playing his violin, as usual, and calling off for the quadrille, in his high pitched rhythmic cadence.
7 Dunbar was two down playing the 17th, but his opponent's three-putt bogey from the back fringe saw the match go to the final hole.
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