Voltaire's inclination is so strong that it carries him too far; he belittles great things by rendering them accessible.
Therefore irony, whereby a man belittles himself in words, is not a sin.
Sometimes, however, it happens that a man belittles himself for some other motive, for instance that he may deceive cunningly: and then irony is more grievous.
To give this power human lineaments and attributes, as our fathers did, only limits and belittles it.
He often defies all our sense of fitness and proportion by the degree in which he magnifies the little and belittles the big.
He belittles everything that goes on in the world outside his bean-field.
The Fiend's Frying Pan is now chiefly remarkable as an early example of Cruikshank's love of crowding a great deal of real life into a vehicle that belittles it.
He insists upon the economic value of high wages, though he somewhat belittles the importance of wealth in the achievement of happiness.
He had firm hold of that insidious danger which belittles freedom itself in the interest of curtailing some special desire.
The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our soul with its fantastic estimate, and by a rash insolence belittles the great to its own measure, as when it speaks of God.
Thomas Frost belittles this statement, on the grounds that Scott was stricken with paralysis in 1830.
Hogarth also placed Fawkes in one of his engravings as the frontispiece of a most diverting brochure on "Taste," in which he belittles Burlington Gate.
Bahaism, in its treatment of Jesus Christ as a man in His earthly life, belittles Him by both its denials and its affirmations.
Bahaism belittles the life and work of Jesus in instituting comparisons between Christ and Baha derogatory to the former.
It drags down and belittles woman in the eyes of man.
Make Clarence realize how he belittles himself in your estimation by unreasoning jealousy.
No other honest work in the country so belittles a woman socially as housework performed for money.
I doubt if there is to-day a more disintegrating influence at work--one more fatal to sound social development--than that which belittles the home and the position of the woman in it.
It cannot rest in a conception of religion that belittles the personal in God or man; for it is itself an emphatic insistence upon the fully personal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belittles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
