Belittles in a sentence

But any conversation that belittles the contamination problem, cost challenges and urgent need for flood mitigation, or ignores the requirements of tax-increment financing, is not likely to be very productive, he said.

Even if some of them were, this belittles the fact that there were no doubt many genuinely angry youth desperate to do something more.

She belittles them, slyly, for no other reason than knowing how.

This is reflected in Vance’s with birth rates and the way he belittles women without children.

It looks as if Hollywood will put out a comedy this fall that promotes abortion and belittles the lives of the unborn and the religion of many Americans.

He belittles government officials and the military.

I’ve seen people who love and believe in the grace of God support President Donald Trump, who bullies, barrages and belittles his critics — the exact opposite of Christianity.

The K-1 Visa process is not one to be entered into lightly, so using the media to fight their battles belittles the thousands of couples seeking to legitimize their unions.

Those opposing the movie and describing it as a political move belittles Pacquiao’s competency as an actor, according to Villegas, the head of that will produce the movie.

Worse, when they take courses billed as language classes for heritage speakers, the instruction often belittles the Spanish spoken by Latinos in the United States as conversational, casual or even uneducated.

You can’t reject him if he rejects and belittles you first.

In one edict he belittles rituals, and he banned Vedic animal sacrifices; these strongly suggest that he at least did not look to the Vedic tradition for guidance.

In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.

Normally mild-mannered and dignified, Calculus occasionally loses his temper and acts in a spectacularly aggressive manner in response to actual or perceived insults, such as when Captain Haddock belittles his work or accuses him of "acting the goat".