Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Belittling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Belittle \Be*lit"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belittled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Belittling}.]
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a
depreciatory or contemptuous way. --T. Jefferson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
belittling
adj : tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
"managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
"deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
remark" [syn: {deprecating}, {deprecative}, {deprecatory},
{depreciative}, {depreciatory}, {slighting}]
n 1: a belittling comment [syn: {denigration}]
2: the act of belittling
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