Then when they show up en masse to protest, they are again belittled as "the angry mob".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stacking the deck (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

He fought with troops that had no commissary; battled with superstition; and saw his name belittled by those he sought to serve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

Emotionally, the wife will feel belittled which is not good.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Overview On Reasons Some Married Women Have Affairs] Reference

Saying McConnell "belittled" the troops is a matter of interpretation and inference, and VERY subjective.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Senate Leader McConnell Appears To Belittle Deaths Of American Troops] Reference

You even bounced it back to me asking if I would get some type of joy in seeing Richard Dawkins 'beliefs being' belittled '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Wins!] Reference

Says Sampdoria should back down from a threat to terminate his contract after he "belittled".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

DODD: ... and not sort of belittled for it at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Dick Cheney and Joseph Lieberman Spar in Cordial Vice Presidential Debate - October 5, 2000] Reference

Why must their talents be belittled and "" counted ''?.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Quotas On Talent] Reference

Governmental circles, however, belittled the agitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

What good could those decorations do that belittled him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This is still quite a beefy display, and not to be belittled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groundwork: The deliciously seedy sunflower] Reference

Northern woods is belittled, are remarkable instances in proof of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference

It was only in so far as it concerned him in person that he belittled it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

When girls get involved in that male world, they are pushed away and belittled.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEN, WOMEN & COMPUTERS] Reference

She often belittled President Truman telling her daughter he made really bad decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2009] Reference

While growing up I was often surprised at the way television belittled "country" people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's A Hillbilly?] Reference

All bitter resentment aside, I couldn't help but feel sheepishly belittled by her presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa] Reference

After its dramatic and sinister opening the war seemed almost belittled by its tame conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

"Well, you know now," returned Falconer with a sense of grim justice to the man he had belittled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

It can't really be that America has become a nation so small-minded that intellect must be belittled.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Important] Reference

He belittled the strength of his captors, and was inclined to scoff at their thunder-and-lightning tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

I've long belittled Delaware for contributing little to the nation other than traffic jams and toll booths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine O'Donnell on human mice, lying to Nazis, and the women of Middle Earth] Reference

Kristen belittled Boobiac's HOH wins record: "Just because you won two out of four is not that big of a deal.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!] Reference

She belittled Jackson's case — and his closing arguments Wednesday — as little but theatrics and storytelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Justice] Reference

The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

He belittled his own abilities, and imagined that things which were difficult for him came easily to other people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

They are certainly cast in a large mould, with nothing belittled or meagre about them, either in feature or figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

Nothing could be further from the truth than the suggestion that the schoolmen despised or belittled temporal riches.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference

As a practicing Catholic, I am tired of being belittled as a "cafeteria Catholic" who is pro-choice, not pro-abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

His open letters to Osama bin Laden, and his statements on the Internet, no longer belittled Iraqi colleagues in arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unmasking the Insurgents] Reference

If so, it seems strange that Plato should have so belittled the poet's capacity to render the spiritual meaning in verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Call it the Harrison Ford trap: all of Ford's fans constantly belittled Ford for not stretching his acting muscles and branching out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Mendelson: Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, and Miley Cyrus Are Genuine Movie Stars] Reference

How long, oh! how long, will our great army of teachers, three-fourths of a million strong, be unappreciated, belittled, and maligned!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference

Grace and Cora scowled at her, and belittled her behind her back, Nancy had learned to go serenely on her way and pay no attention to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference