Crossword-Solution: BELITTLEMENT
We have 10 clues for the answer “BELITTLEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Act of making someone seem unimportant | 1 answer |
| BACKSTABBING | 14 answers |
| disparagement | 17 answers |
| Depreciation. | 19 answers |
| detraction | 27 answers |
| Calumny | 30 answers |
| Defamation | 33 answers |
| Backbiting | 48 answers |
| Fall | 100 answers |
| Decline | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BELITTLEMENT (5)
For Archie they had, one and all, a sensitive affection and respect which recoiled from a word of belittlement.
Very well, now this is the truth without any frills of exaggeration or any belittlement: Dynamite MAY go off by being thrown so that it lands with a jar, but it is not likely to be so hasty as all that.
The young priests of the Divinity School, their eyes wearied with Hebrew and Greek, seem to have enjoyed Emerson's injunction to turn away from past records and historical authorities and to drink from the living fountain of the divine within themselves; but to the professors, "the stern old war-gods," this relative belittlement of historical Christianity seemed blasphemy.
Treason, bribery, appeals to an unqualified voting class, theft of rich men's property under legal forms, free seats in the theatre, belittlement of a great empire, pacifism, love of every state but the right one--these are the open sores of popular control.
The persistent belittling for campaign purposes of the Business of Being a Woman I have repeatedly referred to in this little series of essays; indeed, it has been founded on the proposition that the Uneasy Woman of to-day is to a large degree the result of the belittlement of her natural task and that her chief need is to dignify, make scientific, professionalize, that task.
Quotes with BELITTLEMENT (3)
I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anyway. For myself? Guilt. Shame. Fear. Self-belittlement. I discovered at an early age that I was-- shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general world than the other one. I indulged in certain practices that our soc…
The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even rel…
…did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act of diminishing the other, and it is that act which would cause pain to the victim. You said that about me? The wrong was located in the making of the cruel remark, rather than in the pain it might later cause.