1. The best way to win respect is to constantly strive to improve oneself, not by raising oneself up by belittling others.
2. Lecture Room did play a part in imparting knowledge, but it is amusing itself to death by belittling the dignity of academic research.
3. Xue knows that thanking Zhang and He for saving him is tantamount to belittling their effort.
4. If we attribute their problems to psychological factors, we are ignoring the truth and belittling their existence and contribution.
5. Public opinion usually overwhelmingly supports the demonstrators and adopts a " belittling " attitude towards those who choose not to take to the streets.
6. Russell filed his lawsuit three days before the Globes were held on January 16, and acerbic host Ricky Gervais wasted little time belittling the group during his monologue.
noun
adj
1. tending to diminish or disparage
e.g. belittling comments
managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
deprecatory remarks about the book
a slighting remark
Synonym: deprecating deprecative deprecatory depreciative depreciatory slighting