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Meanings of belittle in English

Portuguese
minimizar
Catalan
denigrar

Cause to seem less serious; play down.

        minimizar
        Portuguese
        minimizar
        Catalan
        menysprear
        Spanish
        despreciar

        Express a negative opinion of.

            minimizar
            Portuguese
            minimizar
            Catalan
            menyspreuar
            Spanish
            disminuir

            Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of.

                  minimizar
                  Usage of belittle in English
                  1
                  Attempts to belittle it are dangerous, allowing the tumour to spread unchecked.
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  Despite what the R&A thought, I never set out to belittle them.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  The mood in our countrymen has been overmuch to belittle things American.
                  Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
                  4
                  They were not men to belittle the powers of the wonderful Baron.
                  Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
                  5
                  But she did not belittle herself in any such tendernesses of regret.
                  We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
                  6
                  With no Russian in sight, foreigners like to belittle and mock Russia.
                  After the Rain : how the West lost the East
                  7
                  Mountford says, My own reason is that it will belittle Regency Square.
                  The Guardian
                  8
                  Because jealous ones cannot equal the leader they seek to belittle him.
                  Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
                  9
                  It has become a shared reflex to deride and belittle such achievements.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  Do not carp at Irish effort, and do not belittle Irish effort.
                  John Redmond's Last Years
                  11
                  It is also important, again for many reasons, not to belittle them.
                  The Grey Book / A collection of protests against anti-semitism a...
                  12
                  What power have they to belittle me, to put me to shame?
                  The Home and the World
                  13
                  It is simply not right to belittle Everest climbers due to ideological differences.
                  Rock and Ice Magazine
                  14
                  Now she's far more likely to shout, or belittle, or patronize.
                  Babyville
                  15
                  Can refute with concrete evidence people who belittle cultural potentialities of motion pictures.
                  The new yorker
                  16
                  But biased reporting which seeks to belittle and humiliate is a different matter.
                  The Irish Times
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                  Belittle through the time
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