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Example sentences for: belittle

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For a while, reviewers tried to belittle her as a "regionalist" à la Flannery O'Connor.
Both magazines belittle Timothy McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, saying that his cross-examination of prosecution witnesses has been confused and ineffective.
I believe Nader has very good reasons why we should all be concerned about Microsoft's attempts to corner the future of computing, and to belittle him with the "Microsoft basher" label is inappropriate.
Lincoln's successors inherited a federal government with much more authority--and more need to use it--than before the war, and they had less motivation to belittle themselves and their powers.
The admonition, "You become what you behold," has yielded to "You become what you belittle."