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Nam-Bok shrugged his shoulders in belittling fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nam-Bok, The Liar] Reference

I hope those who delight in belittling Canada's war effort will take equal delight in belittling their own tax bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Munitions and More Munitions] Reference

I often wonder why some of my fellow-citizens seem to take pleasure in belittling Canada's effort in the production of war munitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Munitions and More Munitions] Reference

Nevertheless, we could not call belittling men a root downfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Sessions with H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Concerning the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 4 Advice for Keeping the Vows and Beginning Kalachakra Practice] Reference

It’s sad to see you once again belittling someone’s military service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Breaking: Bush To Unveil “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” Tommorow] Reference

He mentioned something about "belittling" Sarah Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second McCain Adviser Sidesteps Question About When McCain Camp Knew About Pregnancy] Reference

Indeed, in constantly "belittling" others as she does, she exhibits an ugly attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Comeback Line Ever] Reference

So I was just wondering precisely how describing somebody as what they actually are amount to "belittling"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And citing historical precedent is hardly "belittling".    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

You obviously did not read my post as you are still continuing with the "belittling" attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black America Web] Reference

The Congress also took note of the young BJP leader's statements "belittling" Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. Singh said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

It would be too belittling, too disparaging of self-respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

What belittling of the Almighty! what magnifying of ourselves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference

Others say that relegating her to the role of wife is belittling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible's Lost Stories] Reference

It is often funny and almost always belittling, sometimes actually cruel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense Of Humor] Reference

I think, though, it is time for us to stop belittling and begin educating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dylan Brody: The Tea Party: Poor, Deluded Koch Suckers] Reference

These figures were so astounding that critics lost no time in belittling them.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Worst to Near First] Reference

But with even W belittling Motown, it just might be the right time to go small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Detroit: Hoping for a Small Victory] Reference

The greatest poets of the century are not in the habit of belittling themselves.    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

His eagerness to advance his own cause should never lead him into belittling them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

Ridiculing and belittling the power of the bosses, he called them "warts upon the body politic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

This, of course, is precisely how American denominations got started-by belittling the competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead End For The Mainline?] Reference

It seems odd that the writer would use the phrase as if he were belittling the actor and character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Anxiety And The Brain] Reference

Why did most morphologists join with him in belittling the organism's power of self-transformation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

And yet -- had not this same belittling blemish been the bugbear of his own, generous existence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

Balzac was indeed, in no belittling sense of the word, one of the most good-natured of men of genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

He usually harangues his parliament for hours, often berating and belittling the timid rubber-stampers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Veni, Vidi, Orator, Fugio!] Reference

It is like coming out of a little and belittling tent, to feast upon the sunny amplitude of the open sky!.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

To live is not merely to exist; it is to live unbiased and uninfluenced by low and belittling human influences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

I can see how it is physically possible, but the taste for risk and the belittling of women involved boggle the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bradlee Files] Reference

Hot tempers: Though he is respected by his peers at NBC, many criticize him for his short fuse and an abrasive, belittling manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zucker Unbound] Reference

It is belittling to women to assume that everything mothers have to say about our lives is either uninteresting or, worse, narcissistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Global Warming Debate] Reference

And yet I realize the awfulness and vastness of these great living creatures far more than in the belittling and disillusionizing daylight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference