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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abusive, back-biting, belittlement, bitchy, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comedown, contempt, contemptuous, contumelious, decrial, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciation, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogation, derogative, derogatory, detraction, detractory, disapproval, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, disparaging, faint praise, indignity, knocking, libelous, lukewarm support, minification, minimization, minimizing, pejorative, putting down, qualification, ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, sour grapes, vilifying

Dictionary Results for belittling:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

belittling
    adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
           "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
           "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
           remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative,
           deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
           slighting]
    n 1: a belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling]
    2: the act of belittling

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   [1913 Webster]

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