Crossword-Solution: BELITTLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Belittle | v. t. | To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. |
We have 87 clues for the answer “BELITTLE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Put down as unimportant | 1 answer |
| Make to seem unimportant | 1 answer |
| Speak dismissively of | 1 answer |
| Dismiss as unimportant | 1 answer |
| Cause to appear small | 1 answer |
| trivialise | 2 answers |
| Talk down to | 4 answers |
| GLAMORISE (ant.) | 4 answers |
| Assail verbally | 6 answers |
| Vilipend. | 6 answers |
| Protest (against) | 6 answers |
| Minimize | 6 answers |
| underpraise | 7 answers |
| derogate | 7 answers |
| underprice | 8 answers |
| BRING discredit on | 9 answers |
| Play down? | 9 answers |
| Sneer (at) | 10 answers |
| Make light of | 10 answers |
| Scoff (at) | 13 answers |
| Undervalue | 14 answers |
| pick holes | 14 answers |
| satirise | 15 answers |
| minimise | 16 answers |
| flout | 18 answers |
| underrate | 18 answers |
| BRING low | 19 answers |
| detract | 19 answers |
| MAKE scornful noise | 21 answers |
| judge as bad | 23 answers |
| Deprecate | 24 answers |
| Demean | 25 answers |
| Underestimate | 25 answers |
| Cheapen | 26 answers |
| Debunk? | 26 answers |
| dispraise | 26 answers |
| BACKBITE | 27 answers |
| Scoff | 27 answers |
| Abase | 28 answers |
| Calumniate | 29 answers |
| LOWER in character | 30 answers |
| "Boo" | 30 answers |
| Jeer | 34 answers |
| find fault | 36 answers |
| Abash | 37 answers |
| Deflate | 38 answers |
| Mortify | 39 answers |
| Humiliate | 40 answers |
| Condescend | 40 answers |
| Decry | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BELITTLE (5)
The native whites are generally indisposed to confess that the negroes are quitting the country on account of political injustice and persecution; even those who freely admit and fitly characterize the abuses already described seek to deny, or at least belittle, the political abuses.
Many of the misunderstandings of Tolstoy’s later years have also been attributed by critics, and by those who hate or belittle his ideas, to the influence of this friend.
The reflection steadied his voice as he asked, between pity and irony: “Isn’t it natural that I should try to belittle all the things I can’t offer you?” Her face brightened at this, but she drew her hand away, not with a gesture of coquetry, but as though renouncing something to which she had no claim.
Far from seeking harmony, builders seem to be trying to “go” each other “one story better”; if they can belittle a neighbor in the process it is clear gain, and so much advertisement.
Wasn't one to boast of gold Or belittle it with sneers, Didn't change from hot to cold, Kept his friends throughout the years, Sort of man you like to meet Any time or any place.
Quotes with BELITTLE (3)
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever." Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is longer than eternal. And this joy is owing to the presence of God, not the accomplishments of man. Therefore, if God wants to love us infinitely and delight us fully and eternally, he…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).