Belittling: alternatives and connections

The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

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To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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The act of making black.

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of Deprecate

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Serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

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Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.

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Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.

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Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

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of Slight

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