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"belittle" Definitions
  1. belittle somebody/something to make somebody, or the things that somebody does, seem unimportant

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Their complicit behavior is disguised with feigned understanding, like Bateman asserting (twice) that he doesn't want to "belittle" the issues — before proceeding to belittle the issues.
He chose to belittle me, degrade me, and abuse me.
It is a made up story meant to demean & belittle.
It's simply not OK to belittle anyone based on gender.
Artists have to stay awake, and not belittle small moves.
He doesn't belittle her using SAT words "galvanize" and "myopic"!
Don't belittle the act of a mother feeding her baby.
It's sad to see the once great America belittle itself.
In Alabama, we encourage success, not deride or belittle it.
Admittedly there are times when that characterization would belittle you.
That doesn't mean we belittle people and scream at them.
He argued that political opponents "try to belittle" his electoral victory.
West shot back, telling Grande not to belittle his mental health.
Do not belittle what these parents are doing for their child.
He has also missed no opportunity to belittle his Republican confrères.
"Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't belittle the mountain," he said.
Worse, she uses her status at the hospital to belittle others.
One cannot belittle the danger inherent in an anti-Semitic discourse.
But it's hard for me to see why we belittle the intense
Forgiving of those in positions of power who berate and belittle us.
It was done to belittle me and threaten my safety and comfort.
Because he was not one to belittle, bully, or put down people.
"I don't want to belittle Heather Lind for feeling violated," Grolnick says.
I befriend my real-life bullies only to belittle them over chat.
When you belittle someone, it virtually shrinks them, making them seem small.
Veering away from cultural matters, he used his speech to belittle Mrs.
The comparison here is with Swift, who was out to belittle mankind.
But that doesn't belittle her trauma, I don't think, in any way.
We know when someone's behavior or comments hurt, belittle or embarrass us.
" Pete can belittle the grassroots; he can call buybacks a "shiny object.
I nodded and bit my tongue at her attempt to belittle me.
So I'm not here to belittle them or their profession by any means.
Players bemoan common choices, belittle pedantic strategies, and gasp when something different happens.
It is another thing altogether to openly attack or belittle the [intelligence community].
There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle — the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
How dare someone bastardize and belittle that person's efforts for their own personal gain?
It's not to belittle the practice; every zoo should be prepared for every contingency.
It's kind of ironic since President Donald Trump tries to belittle Shaheen's colleague Sen.
Linton chose to demonstrate her wealth and privilege and then chose to belittle me.
By misrepresenting science to belittle minority groups and women, he can easily mislead people.
Do not belittle women for needing to take time off for period pains.32.
Mr. Alda was not trying to belittle people who have severe symptoms, he added.
"I know that sitting on the street begging I belittle myself," Mr. Dongo said.
Comey told Maitlis on Thursday that he had not intended to belittle the president.
There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle — the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful and backward-looking people.
"We will not belittle or demean or vilify other candidates," he said in Mt. Vernon.
In Trump's case he used his 2016 campaign to belittle every establishment Republican from Sen.
"You belittle me by saying I'm involved with something I'm not involved with," Medley said.
To find this worrying is not to belittle the success and stability of Germany today.
To belittle or assault God's creatures is thus to be guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.
To belittle my childcare issues in your courtroom is unconscionable and totally out of line.
And, if I'm not asking too much, maybe give a compliment that doesn't belittle me?
In my experience, candidates with advisers who belittle them on background do not win elections.
Too often in otherwise polite society, elites (progressives emphatically included) unselfconsciously belittle working-class whites.
They seemed to belittle it with their parsing of every question and their half-decisions.
I recognize that a lot of people love it, and I don't want to belittle that.
The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
I don't say this to belittle the accomplishments of these two very talented and fortunate students.
The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful backward-looking people.
Partners that argue or belittle each other during photo sessions may not live happily ever after
You didn't back down but every time you saw him, did you attack and belittle him?
Why not go all the way and comment on how men in power belittle their victims?
However, many Western elites and analysts belittle Russian military power because the Russian economy is weak.
All right, so you're trying to belittle my job, is that what you're trying to do?
The slurs hurled at women to humiliate or belittle them don't seem to work on Daniels.
She said it was important for scholars "not to belittle or ridicule" different streams of belief.
But for the most part, I don't hear him belittle people or talk down on people.
He was a good man with a good heart, who didn't lie, cheat or belittle me.
Trump is certainly not the only prominent politician to belittle women by commenting on their appearance.
This is not to belittle the horrible acts culminating in murderous violence that are committed by ISIS.
Nothing but the politics of envy and a transparent effort to misrepresent and belittle the current economy.
And I'm not gonna let no one try to belittle me in any way, shape or form.
So I took a conscious decision to belittle them, and not talk to other people about them.
Our generation is being taught that it is okay to ignore and belittle whomever they are with.
He did not insult protesting athletes, or belittle a Puerto Rico mayor, or feud with war widows.
So much, went the argument, for those who would belittle the oldest cup competition in the world.
Up until then, officials, including the governor's chief of staff Dennis Muchmore, seemed to belittle complaints from critics.
All of which makes Trump's efforts to belittle the investigation and move past it that much more difficult.
Whereas Mr Trump used to belittle Mr Priebus, he has given Mr Kelly traditional chief-of-staff authority.
ISIS and al-Qaeda are rival jihadist organizations and have been known to insult and belittle each other.
"You can criticize Russia for anything, but if you belittle Russia, that is a crime," Mr. Trenin said.
I don't mean to belittle it at all, but you start talking money, and people really clam up.
Great powers are great when they work together — not when they attempt to belittle and blame the other.
And voting against the big-city elites who they think belittle them can be doubly satisfying, analysts say.
"To joke about that is to belittle all of us and that is unacceptable," she wrote on Twitter.
Whenever I got up to speak, he'd try and argue with me or belittle me in front of everybody.
Like the American, he can be thin-skinned, tends to belittle rivals and has often clashed with the media.
Although the president has ceased to belittle NATO, his mercurial policies have alienated many of the alliance's member states.
This is not to belittle the U.S. effort but rather to add context and a wider, 2000-degree view.
We embrace or belittle, eat or starve — and everyone knows what the general societal preference is in that dichotomy.
And because of that, people aren't really open about the pain, they're worried people are going to belittle them.
It doesn't belittle history in any way, it doesn't betray history in any way, it makes you question history.
Much of that seems to come from Gervais' impulse to belittle himself, which he's been doing since The Office.
Its response to Ms Tsai's speech was to resort to threats about cutting off contacts and to belittle her.
Donald used "Europe" to belittle her sometimes, but he also used "European" as Americans did, like an aspirational word.
On the streets, Hong Kong's protesters have also mocked China's accusations, saying they were intended to belittle their grievances.
He delights in doing everything in his power to demean and belittle the 670,85033 residents of the nation's capital.
And then there are the legions of big-shot producers and execs who belittle and scream at everyone daily.
By the time she made Summer Night, Wertmüller had more than earned the right to belittle hokey, Hollywood-style eroticism.
How disconnected have we become that our first explanation of this election is to insult and belittle half our population?
It once was — and, in many ways, still is — normal to belittle a young man because he wasn't "macho" enough.
In this day and age, why are developers putting out video games that belittle such a relatable and common illness?
Trump is that person you know who's so obsessed with #engagement that they use it to belittle others into submission.
Mr. Pence insisted that he and Mr. Trump were trying to belittle President Obama rather than to laud Mr. Putin.
"I felt it was so disrespectful to talk to an employee like that and belittle her like that," Biandudi said.
Both are trying to "write" the central event of their lives in a way that doesn't belittle or sensationalize it.
To have someone belittle you, degrade you, and call you a whore when you're not okay with it is unacceptable.
Unlike many of Trump's targets, however, Bloomberg has proven to be remarkably immune to the president's attempts to belittle him.
Rather than belittle Chicago's communities with hateful and dishonest rhetoric, he needs to go back to D.C. and face his fate.
Rather than micromanage, nag, belittle, or beg, they focus on the things they can control — like their own effort and attitude.
Or risk more lives being taken away in shooting after shooting while Republicans continue to belittle us with thoughts and prayers.
Watts told Refinery213 that the pearls seemed like references to "pearl-clutching," a sexist way to mock and belittle the women.
If anyone could individually stand-up to the uneducated or bigoted masses that openly belittle and trash addicts, it is Chase.
As for lesbians ... the newspaper says they have a tendency to hug one another and belittle members of the opposite sex.
Great bosses are honest, but they don't belittle people or say out loud every negative thing that pops in their head.
Even if you didn't have anything violent happen to you, there was always a way for a man to belittle you.
I win an election easily, a great "movement" is verified, and crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS.
In the book, Scott wrote:When bosses belittle employees, embarrass them publicly, or freeze them out, their behavior falls into this quadrant.
They compare their relative traits, discuss what might make a good slave—I mean soldier—and then constantly belittle orc culture.
But then, that would detract from the purpose of the book — which is to weaken, belittle and even smear the president.
But Charlie's connection to the theater is meant as the opposite of satire; it's not deployed to belittle but to valorize.
Rigell called out Trump for being someone who teaches the next generation of Republicans to belittle their adversaries and mock people.
But the way to engage them is not to target them for their views and belittle the mission of their agencies.
"These types of things cause a crisis in government, and when you fundraise of off them then you belittle the issues."
What's more, Thomas's post didn't belittle Thiel's sexuality — it questioned why his colleagues in Silicon Valley did, despite portraying themselves as accepting.
It fits into a broader pattern of using his power and influence to bully and belittle women to whom he's sexually attracted.
The messages belittle blacks, Latinos and Indians and insult President Barack Obama and NBA superstar LeBron James, among many other disparaging conversations.
"One thing Richard Nixon would never have done is belittle the court," former Nixon White House counsel John Dean said on CNN.
He regularly turns to Twitter to belittle the "failing" New York Times or "phony" Washington Post for their coverage of the race.
Those comments that angered many African-Americans, who accused the former president of trying to belittle Obama's success in the race. Rep.
Others pointed out that being a virgin is a choice, and Cyrus should "respect people's choices," and not "define or belittle" virginity.
Trump also declared that he knows "tech better than anyone" and blamed Democrats for "trying to belittle the concept" of the wall.
She seems to assume that the white liberal elite is monolithic and thinks that working-class folks wield bats and belittle women.
Fifteen or so years ago there was a guard who used to stand in the chow hall and constantly belittle our food.
They hate us, they belittle us, because they only believe in their own interests, and in the interests of the United States.
How do we care for our men and women in service, not how do we make fun of and belittle a family's grief?
He will not be able to belittle and marginalize everyone who challenges him or skip every debate that doesn't agree to his terms.
"Rather than belittle Chicago's communities with hateful and dishonest rhetoric, he needs to go back to D.C. and face his fate," she added.
Another key moment of the night was when Trump tried to belittle her by saying she didn't have the stamina to be President.
"I always kind of belittle myself next to my sister, just because she's saving the world and I'm drinking pinot grigio," Hager says.
But to dismiss the blatant homophobia and transphobia on display in Chappelle's latest specials as just innocuous "comedy" is to belittle Chappelle's genius.
The trial lawyers, who the Chamber of Commerce, the attack dog for the large corporations, spends millions of dollars to attack and belittle.
Trump likes to ignore or belittle these kinds of strategic investments, but like Jon Snow, he knows nothing when it comes to politics.
The imbroglio provoked the shadow foreign secretary, of the opposition Labour Party, to complain that Trump was "trying to humiliate and belittle" May.
This is not to belittle what is no easy task for Davis or Cohen to raise sympathy and support for an unsympathetic figure.
They require several counseling sessions with providers who are very quick to make snide remarks to shame and belittle your circumstances and choice.
Under the pressure, Ms. Yang issued a public apology, asking for forgiveness and declaring that she did not intend to belittle her country.
"So what they can do is use Hong Kong as a platform" to spread gossip anonymously, praise their own camp and belittle opponents.
And other government officials, after weeks of hearing Trump belittle their agencies, are feeding the press information about Russian involvement with his campaign.
In his speech later, Trump proceeded to belittle North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man" and threatened to eliminate his regime.
Today, we must take a zero-tolerance policy to leaders who belittle, demean and espouse hate against others, no matter how they vote.
These stories are about a man using his power to belittle, humiliate, or take advantage of a woman who can't do much about it.
Like other pop stars' devoted fan bases, the Barbz take it upon themselves to insult and belittle people they feel are hating on Minaj.
He was adept at solving problems and at rallying workers, but he was brusque and obsessive, prone to belittle teammates who disagreed with him.
It is not to belittle Uruguay's astonishing achievements in those two tournaments to suggest that, with one more win, Croatia would outstrip them both.
In this sense he differs from the Surrealists, who wanted to topple the status quo, and Pop artists, who too often belittle their subjects.
Victoria, for example, never misses an opportunity to cut off or belittle her comrade in resistance, though the source of her irritation is unclear.
Yet again and again, elements within the faith have veered away from Christianity's egalitarian roots, with biblical teachings distorted in ways that belittle women.
They were not supportive, they would belittle me at any opportunity and I felt like they were actively making me feel worse about myself.
In their public pronouncements, Iranian leaders sought to belittle the assailants and their acts, emphasizing that the Parliament chamber itself had never been breached.
The lady who made the remark might, indeed, have been trying to belittle me, and reacted defensively, with backup from the second co-worker.
"We stand firmly against harassment, bullying and shaming — especially of women — through the use of derogatory terms meant to belittle and demean," they wrote.
" I don't mean to belittle this age of technology, but when the telegraph came along, people thought, "Okay, this is the death of this.
It can mean excluding certain kids from gatherings, using inside jokes to belittle people or just purposefully making life look more glamorous than it is.
That's a conversation seemingly of Che's own invention, and an effective way to belittle and delegitimize the actual conversation we're trying to have about this.
Even as they demonize the media, PewDiePie and Trump belittle it, describing it as a waning power in the face of their own distribution channels.
When I was ten, it was one of the first animated shows I watched that specifically targeted young girls but didn't caricature or belittle them.
All the while, he was undercut by the president himself at every turn — in private, it's reportedly common for Trump to mock and belittle Priebus.
And I'd be hard pressed to go a day without hearing someone belittle either his or her own body or another's body based on size.
President Trump continues to publicly belittle big media organizations as "fake news," but in Washington, his administration's moves are a boon to big media companies.
Voters ultimately want to know what candidates stand for, not how they smooth over perceived differences or how much they can belittle others, however justified.
Furthermore, this past weekend, Trump seemed to belittle and betray the #MeToo Movement by tweeting that men's lives can be destroyed by a "mere" allegation.
"Some images don't help us grow and, on the contrary, they belittle us," he said in an interview on a local television channel, 3/24.
Until recently, executives in Silicon Valley tended to belittle China's potential in tech, arguing that rigid controls in politics and education would constrain radical innovation.
Meanwhile, nicknames like Langford's seem intended both to belittle and sensationalise the fighter, using race in a tawdry effort to exploit the prejudices of the crowd.
Please understand, I don't mean to insult anyone here or to belittle the extraordinary work that has been done by this amazing community over the years.
Trump may have to choose between two outcomes that are not only wildly unpalatable, but two descriptions that he uses to belittle others: Quitter or loser.
Following the episode, Black Twitter was ablaze with jokes about "classic mistakes" and the lengths Vanzant was willing to go to belittle Tran while empowering her.
"It was not my intention to belittle the trans community with my poor choice of words directed toward Erika," she told Page Six in a statement.
Because the president dared to compare this scandal with Watergate, many in the liberal media proceeded to attack, mock, or belittle the tweet with a vengeance.
Here are three specific examples of what teams can't do on social media anymore, per MacMahon: Disparage, belittle or embarrass an individual opponent or game official.
They most likely will misunderstand the message; belittle the impact that failures have on their success and you'll grow a team of experimenters with no purpose.
The innovations that followed largely involved tone—at some point, in the seventies, it became acceptable to belittle, rather than humor, an out-of-control caller.
"His aim is not to inform you, belittle you, or treat you like you're stupid," said Sharon Andrea, dating coach and founder of Modern Dating Mastery.
Multiple current and former musicians, most speaking anonymously because they feared retribution, said Mr. Bobbie could be intimidating and Ms. Stifelman could belittle or disrespect performers.
MORE for getting captured in Vietnam; they saw him belittle a Gold Star family; and they saw the tape in which Trump boasted about sexual assault.
This is not to belittle the companies in this category or to suggest their stocks might not be well-priced for decent returns over the long term.
But the president has been unwilling to fire him, and Sessions has refused to quit, leaving Trump to explore ways to snub and belittle the attorney general.
The issue here is Linton's ostentatiousness on social media; the fact that Linton tagged all her designer labels and used her wealth to belittle another woman online.
They are also less likely to use sexist or racist humor to belittle others, or to react defensively and retaliate when they are the subject of jokes.
If you're healthy but experiencing markers linked to various mental illnesses—fear, sadness, numbness, trouble concentrating, stress—that sucks also and I'm not here to belittle them.
"President Trump uses words often and uses them spectacularly: to mobilize his core followership, to bully and belittle opponents, to tweet his hurts and grievances," Frum wrote.
"The speech is just to share my overseas experience and comes with no intention to negate or belittle my country," she said on Weibo, deleting earlier posts.
LeBron needs to be processed through an entirely objective lens, void of emotional/personal opinions that belittle how thoroughly he exceeds preposterous expectations on a daily basis.
The book portrays Mr. Trump as inattentive, surrounded by aides who belittle his intelligence and capabilities, and describes the president as presiding over a dysfunctional White House.
In one heated scene in the first season, in which a Spaniard tries to belittle Teresa for being South American, she corrects her while wielding a knife.
Partisans on both sides have come to view the opposition as truly vicious and are predisposed to distrust and belittle whatever scandal the other side is pushing.
In the meantime, he lives in self-imposed austerity, scared to embrace his new life, as if doing so might belittle the danger his daughters still face.
In the meantime, he lives in self-imposed austerity, scared to embrace his new life, as if doing so might belittle the danger his daughters still face.
Ali was not above employing racial epithets to belittle his black competitors, with his use of the term 'Uncle Tom' to describe Joe Frazier controversial to this day.
"Not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry it is incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes, 'difficult,'" Bateman said.
That said, nonchalantly assigning yourself with a phobia can belittle the fact that some people struggle to go about their daily lives because their phobias are so severe.
Major figures from his own party routinely criticize his impulsive rhetoric and chaotic management, belittle his intelligence, mock his political ideas, and bemoan his lack of policy knowledge.
"It's unfortunate that we now live in a time where people have been empowered and encouraged to belittle and disgrace other human beings,"Landon Donovan told VICE Sports.
The closest thing to it is a sore-loser sneer for failing to get an Emmy out of a reality television show that allowed him to belittle women.
In the more "natural" forms of communication, participants were also less likely to dehumanize and belittle the cognitive abilities and moral attributes of the person they disagreed with.
Rather than facing up to a humanitarian crisis and the sufferings of fellow Americans, Mr. Trump prefers to belittle Puerto Rico and question its entitlement to recovery help.
Many in Britain, citing the often rainy weather and expressing frustration with the infamously high levels of leakage from underground pipes, tend to belittle warnings about water shortages.
Reporter's Notebook: • This week in hidden words: Along with "belittle," I spotted "faith" on a candle at the shrine to Natalie and Camille carving "fix" into her wrist.
Amid the American team's euphoria after the victory over England, Bahr felt compassion for the losers, and through the years he never sought to belittle that English team.
BATEMAN But this is a family and families, you know, have love, laughter, arguments — again, not to belittle it, but a lot of stuff happens in 15 years.
" She has support from Rob Fisher, the show's original musical director, who said, "I've never seen her belittle or humiliate, and it's hard for me to imagine that.
The very Constitution Sutton claims "the ignorant" don't understand was originally written to allow men like him to belittle and dehumanize all who weren't white, landowning and male.
And Mr. Trump's thumbs have been as quick as ever when he sees an opportunity to belittle the press or amplify what looks like a brewing culture war.
"It's not bad to go hardcore once in a while, but one should never belittle a nice hot yoga class or a brisk 60-minute walk," says Olshan.
Of these, 19 accounts stood out, appearing to be interlinked and waging incessant "memetic warfare", using a battery of manipulated images and videos to belittle the Republican leader.
I don't have a judgement on where someone's passion lies and those who belittle or judge or bully or criticize someone else's passion—that really sets me on edge.
His order was quickly halted by the federal courts in a first showdown between his strong-arm executive powers and the judiciary -- leading Trump to belittle judges on Twitter.
More than a term to describe a straightforward recipe to launch, I see it as an unconscious way to belittle an entire group of hard-charging founders and investors.
Why create work that directly ties into the historical and social impact of racism, yet belittle our right to analyze how her art is a meaningful response to it?
Even as a major party presidential nominee, Clinton is still undercut by the very same sexism that was deployed so effectively to subvert and belittle her in the '90s.
Although al-Sharif said more needs to be done to empower women in the kingdom and give females their "basic human rights", she did not belittle the driving breakthrough.
"The assertion that I ever attempted to belittle or demean a young man for taking action to help another person is absolutely false," he said in a written statement.
Mr. Reines would not be uncomfortable calling her "Crooked Hillary," like Mr. Trump does, or even bringing up her husband's past infidelities to try to unnerve or belittle her.
The GOP front-runner, despite accepting Christie's endorsement, has appeared to belittle Christie in public appearances and was caught on video brusquely dismissing the governor from the campaign stage.
But it turns out they supported me more than I could have hoped for, and I no longer felt like I had to belittle what had happened to me.
It turned out that we were right in being nonchalant, but that does not diminish the seriousness of the matter or belittle the reaction of those who responded differently.
So they are more readily provoked and more vigilant Liberal commentators sometimes use Hibbing and Smith's research to belittle conservatives and say they are too reactionary and less measured.
So they are more readily provoked and more vigilant Liberal commentators sometimes use Hibbing and Smith's research to belittle conservatives and say they are too reactionary and less measured.
They might steal credit for your successes, blame you for their failures, invade your privacy or break their promises, or bad-mouth you, scream at you and belittle you.
It has even become fashionable among some educators to belittle the teaching of natural history and scientific facts that can be "regurgitated" on tests in favor of theoretical concepts.
"We stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the toughest fights, against opponents who used their power to belittle and erase their fellow Georgians," she wrote in a fund-raising email.
"Not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry it is incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes, 'difficult,'" Mr. Bateman said.
It leads them to belittle the energies of reformism, and to obscure the truth that change and reform do occur, even if in a halting and often unfathomable manner.
"Not Nearly Enough Sex and the City" Four fabulous N.Y.C. gals meet up for brunch and to ruthlessly belittle you for sometimes not being in the mood for sex.
Flippant comparisons also belittle and ignore the way that historical trauma creates immense ongoing psychological pain and tangible collective struggle that continues through generations, even up through the present.
"It is a breeding ground for atypical behavior and certain people have certain processes," he says, denying that he intends to "belittle or excuse" Tambor's behavior — but doing just that.
How can we fulfill our essential role of reporting the actions of those in power and contextualizing their statements if those statements do little more than belittle and attack us?
Now, in a sign of how the party is changing, it has begun using the renascent rhetoric of populist nationalism to belittle the very idea of linking two countries together.
This is not to belittle the accomplishments of a company like SpaceX, which has managed to entirely change the way we think about life beyond earth in just 15 years.
Trump effectively dispatched a crowded field of Republican primary contenders in 2016, leaning on nicknames and insults like "Low Energy Jeb [Bush]" and "Lyin' Ted [Cruz]" to belittle his opponents.
Even after she delivers a stunning reported piece on a strip club that appealed to readers online, Gabe (John Cameron Mitchell), her boss, continues to belittle her, downplaying her talent.
The intention is not to belittle or minimize what's happening, but it's things that are really happening, and that's one reason why people definitely have different reactions to the site.
That he has ideological disagreements with the panelists is not an excuse to belittle the work we do in the Bronx, nor to insult Shannon Jones the way he did.
During the course of our relationship, he would often belittle my writing, make off-color comments on my racial identity, and was never afraid to raise his voice at me.
But as we continue to talk about harassment and assault, it's important to point out another kind of abuse; one in which people use their power to humiliate and belittle others.
C. media, where the audience's vicarious thrill comes not from watching scrappy underdogs heckle their supposed betters, but from watching guys sitting comfortably atop social hierarchies belittle and dominate their lessers.
In the book, he lays out the tactics Kalanick would use to belittle Lyft, like tweeting #clone at its founders, putting up "Shave the 'Stache" billboards, and undermining Lyft's carpool launch.
Those for and against the renaming dispute how the street got its name — either to honor visiting Africans or to belittle those brought as servants to territory that is now Germany.
She explains that these critics seem to have forgotten — or want to belittle her by overlooking — the fact that she was there doing a magazine exposé, not as a regular employee.
If we want to engage our students, rather than belittle them, we might consider changing the subject from free speech per se to how words lead to action in the world.
When Mr. Jones would meet with graduate students, according to two Region 5 officials, he would often joke that "my major was partying" as a way to belittle their academic experience.
Once Trump opens his mouth, however, he simultaneously opens up the dimensions of his mind, thoughts, reasoning, thinking and analytical process for prosecutors to savagely assail, contradict, denigrate, belittle and undermine.
"The instinct to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people," said the Arizona lawmaker, who announced he would not run for re-election next year.
"We stand firmly against harassment, bullying and shaming — especially of women — through the use of derogatory terms meant to belittle and demean," the pageant winners wrote, according to the New York Times.
Very often when I read a profile of a woman who is also a celebrity, I snag on a sentence that seems to suspiciously belittle or even objectify the woman in question.
The prime minister and government ministers appear before other elected members in support of their policies, while the opposition asks pointed and sometimes funny questions in an effort to belittle those policies.
He refuses to stop declaring himself the manager, desiring control of everything, even though no one listens to him and Lucy, his teammate, seems to be playing almost entirely to belittle him.
As she struggles to stay on top of a demanding career and new motherhood, the movie also shows her constant battle against those who underestimate and belittle her based on her gender.
The news outlet went on to belittle Biden as a "fool of low IQ," citing his college grades and disparaging him for falling asleep at a 2011 speech by former President Obama.
"Nevertheless, she persisted" has become a rallying cry, and the spectacle of Kamala Harris being repeatedly interrupted during Senate hearings prompted passionate conversations about how men talk over and belittle female colleagues.
Alvarez got annoyed when de la Hoya appeared to belittle his trainer, Eddy Reynoso, during a since-deleted social media feud involving de la Hoya and another Golden Boy athlete Ryan Garcia.
So if ... And not to belittle that, but if you were there at the beginning of YouTube, basically, your chances of getting some sort of notoriety were much higher than they are now.
The unwanted sexual conduct is the extension of a toxic power dynamic — a need for the powerful to humiliate the less powerful, to belittle others, to see their will exerted against vulnerable people.
We did see Trump publicly belittle his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the last week or so over Sessions' recusal of himself form the Russian investigation and his soft approach toward leakers.
There is a model for this: It's Donald Trump, it's Sheldon Adelson, it's every other powerful person that uses their platform and their wealth to attack, belittle, and take advantage of everyone else.
As president of the United States, he has set an example for all citizens that it's normal and acceptable to belittle those who make the difficult decision to speak up about sexual assault.
The Democratic Party should embrace, not belittle or ignore, candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cynthia Nixon, who will fight for a progressive domestic and foreign policy agenda, and who can be elected.
Perhaps fittingly, much of the feud has played out on the same social media battleground and using the same conspiratorial tone that Trump himself has exploited to great effect to belittle his rivals.
Kennedy appears to have purposely set out to belittle a person in an apparent attempt to settle a score with someone else, typifying the inside-the-Beltway petulance that so many Americans despise.
Sessions, meanwhile, has repeatedly found himself in the presidential crosshairs, with Trump frequently taking to his favorite social media platform to belittle and chastise one of the most prominent members of his Cabinet.
But by late this week, after days of watching President Trump excoriate and belittle Attorney General Jeff Sessions, some seniors were ready to let the rule slide so they could defend an Alabamian.
German far-right leaders haven't appropriated the term "fake news" in the way that Donald Trump uses it to belittle mainstream media in the US — something that has fueled calls to retire the term.
You see it all over the place in gaming and in online gaming spaces, the usage of the N-word, the F-word, the R-word, and other words to belittle or insult people.
The unwanted sexual conduct can be the extension of a toxic power dynamic — a need for the powerful to humiliate the less powerful, to belittle others, to see their will exerted against vulnerable people.
Nipsey applauds 21's shift, but he's pissed at Akademiks' reaction -- which seemed to belittle Savage for being off-brand -- and says the blogger needs to get "f***ed up" for saying such things.
In five years with Allen, I never once heard him say anything negative or belittle anyone, never blamed a loss on a teammate, never talked shit on the court, in pre- or post-game.
Did he feel he was cleverly executing a diplomatic version of his art of the business deal -- berate, belittle and bemuse his opponent before closing in on his own terms to seal the deal?
Not to belittle people's process—because obviously their process is their process—but my process is I like to show up and do stuff and I like it to be as quick as possible.
Last November, over 200 women in national security signed an open letter warning that sexual assault, harassment and "environments that silence, demean, belittle or neglect women" were driving their female colleagues from the field.
But Valera — who's actually one of my more apolitical friends in Russia — was convinced that the film's producers, most likely under the direction of the US government, had picked China to deliberately belittle Russia.
The worst humiliations Ines suffers come not from anything outrageous her father does, but rather from the everyday piggishness of the men who belittle her work, thwart her ambitions or take her for granted.
In addition to being harassed by Ailes, Carlson claims she was abused by former Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy, who would allegedly mock her during commercial breaks and belittle her contributions to the show.
"You don't want to belittle the Olympics and try to create it as something totally different, but once you are actually in the start gate, it's all about skiing like you normally would," Ligety says.
" Bateman also commented on Tambor's behavior, telling his castmates, "Not to belittle it or excuse it or anything, but in the entertainment industry it is incredibly common to have people who are, in quotes, 'difficult.
There is an undeniable potency to a populist appeal -- but mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people.
Lavrov, speaking days before Trump's inauguration, used an annual news conference to flag potential areas of cooperation and to belittle what he described as malicious attempts to link Trump to Russia in a negative light.
Producer Rebecca Carroll, who now works at Shonda Rhimes' production company ShondaLand, tweeted Wednesday evening that Rose would regularly belittle her and that she was punished for speaking out about "casual racism" at the show.
It's a move straight out of How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ's 1983 magnum opus on how the world works to prevent women from writing and belittle those who do: She didn't write it.
Mr. Barak is welcome to try his hand at politics again, but his political future will undoubtedly end like his political past if he continues to besmirch and belittle the will of the Israeli people.
Erdogan, frequently critical of the EU, has at times appeared to belittle his progress, most notably efforts to win visa-free travel to Europe by June, the main prize in the eyes of many Turks.
His approach with Hillary Clinton and other female opponents and critics has generally been to belittle their looks — hurtful and offensive, to be sure, but something most high-profile women have a lot of practice handling.
But we don't belittle you when you abuse your girlfriends, and cheat on your girlfriends, and don't pay your bills, and bring your girlfriends chlamydia, AIDS, and all that bullshit you tryin' to put on us.
Gutshall opted for a green "Drunk Lives Matter" tee for his mugshot, a 100-percent cotton travesty that managed to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and belittle the efforts of an activist movement in the same breath.
He said he did not mean to belittle the suffering of the 22 Filipino fishermen, who identified the vessel that struck their boat as Chinese and claimed that it turned around and quickly fled the site.
Many conservative Republicans feel that frightening news of climate change usually comes from alarmist liberals who belittle their religious faith, elitists who condescend to them and a federal government that, until Mr. Trump, had forgotten them.
It's quite another to step onto the inaugural stage, put your hand on the Bible and then go out of your way to belittle the past presidents who are sitting, respectfully, just a few feet away.
"It was heartbreaking for me to sit as I listened to someone demean and belittle all the greatness of my community," Senaida Nevar, Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar's guest at the State of the Union, told me.
Nancy Pelosi tried to belittle the tax cuts passed by the Republican Congress and signed into law by President Trump – along with the resulting bonuses handed out by businesses to their employees – and ended up looking foolish.
"He felt it would belittle the position of the RBI governor if he had to appear before the committee," said one senior commercial banker who knows Rajan personally but had not spoken to him since his decision.
They tried to paint him as a frat boy and belittle his experience by using a video of him dressed as Han Solo from Star Wars for a spoof film made during his undergrad days at Georgetown.
"It was in no way meant to belittle or minimize the suffering and hurt of victims of sex abuse, and in retrospect I can see why it caused great offense to many," he said in a statement.
MARCA replied by publishing a short article crowbarring the crimes of predatory sex offender Jimmy Savile, who worked for the BBC for decades, into a response aimed to belittle and mock the BBC's self-described impartiality rules.
The most the president has said took place the day after the election, when he used a news conference to belittle those who did not campaign with him and lost — an extraordinary tirade that few lawmakers condemned.
Donald Trump Jr. posted a picture of a childish love letter, drawn in crayon, to Instagram in an attempt to belittle the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as "usual nonsense games" from Democrats.
When his actions and statements belittle and demean others, provoke violence, and target people based on personal characteristics, it creates "an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty" that children see and may even reproduce in their own classrooms.
He promised to be a dealmaker, but his impulse to belittle his opponents and the miasma of scandal and leaks surrounding Russia's role in the campaign have made the chances of cross-party co-operation even more remote.
"Not only do they feel no duty to report what the other side is saying or give balance, but they feel a commitment to belittle its argument," said Brian Cathcart, a professor of journalism at Kingston University London.
She was hardly a well-known figure when she ran for mayor in 2012 against a 12-year incumbent, Jorge Santini, who misjudged the threat and seemed to belittle her by calling her "esa señora," or that woman.
I don't know his faith background, but his refusal to brag, pat himself on the back or forget about or abuse his power and influence to belittle those less fortunate are the kinds of qualities the Christian Bible encourages.
I would never belittle Beyoncé's Lemonade visual album by tossing out comparisons willy-nilly, which is why I hope you know I mean it when I say that artist Kelsey Lu has made her own version of that masterpiece.
The problem comes in when the media or the public focuses on clothes in ways that belittle or demean the women wearing them, or when women are held to standards of dress or appearance that don't apply to men.
If you really want to get on the wrong side of the #TimesUp  movement, keep using our name to attack and belittle farmworker women who are fighting to keep themselves and their sisters safe from rape in the fields.
He proceeded to cut Turx off, belittle his question, and deny any anti-Semitism from himself or his campaign: He said he was going to ask a easy question — okay sit down, I understand the rest of your question.
It is, however, also dangerous to ignore or belittle the potency of ISIS ideology, the core role it has played in recent violence from Paris to California, and the link between that ideology and the broader crisis of Islam.
In my view, nothing could do more to belittle the oath and undermine the credibility of the process (thereby denying the country the closure that an evidence-based verdict is intended to achieve) than to precipitously dismiss the charges.
There can be no question that using Western art to belittle other cultures will further alienate the general public, but so too will the idea that what we do is no better or worse than any other cultural offering.
After the case concluded, Unsworth bristled at the efforts from the defense to belittle his contributions, including one moment where he had been asked by an attorney whether or not he felt like he needed to apologize to Musk.
Matt Gorman, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, blasted Pelosi's comments Tuesday evening, "Leave it to a San Francisco liberal to belittle and condescend to the 63 million voters who called for real change last November," Gorman said.
I don't know how we got here, but sometime in the past year we've given ourselves a free pass to belittle and bully an artist in a way we don't do to others with equally problematic pasts — and certainly not men.
"To those critics I would say you haven't listened to enough grime music because there's so many creative people in the scene for someone to belittle us with that statement," Rage, 32, a member of the Slew Dem Crew, told Reuters.
Following the violence in Charlottesville this weekend, leading alt-right website The Daily Stormer published an article that suggested the woman who died during the protests was killed during a "road-rage incident" and went on to belittle her appearance.
What is unusual is for a president to freak out about it in public and to demean and belittle the collective leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies as President Donald Trump did after their public testimony before the senate last week.
To belittle the culture as unworthy of serious consideration does a disservice to the vision and skills these young people displayed, said Rhea Combs, curator of film and photography at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
With just over two months until the Iowa caucuses, her staff is now riven between competing factions eager to belittle one another, and the candidate's relationship with Mr. Rodriguez has turned frosty, according to multiple Democrats close to Ms. Harris.
Promoting a cartoon of a person being run over by a train appeared to belittle the attack by a driver who ran into a crowd of counterprotesters, leaving a 32-year-old woman dead on Saturday and 19 others injured.
"I don't want to in any way belittle the struggles of other people while talking about the struggles of a straight man," said Patty Walters, 27, the lead singer of As It Is. "At the same time, toxic masculinity is real."
As almost anyone who has worked in an office knows: People can be awful and they can use their power, however limited, to belittle or pressure others in subtle or not-so-subtle ways that are psychically bruising but technically not illegal.
Carlson details her allegations in the suit, in which she accuses Ailes of an ongoing pattern of harassment and describes a corporate culture of sexism; she names at least one male co-worker who, she alleges, would condescend and belittle female colleagues.
And, let's not gloss over it, this is a depiction of a campaign—a campaign that nurtures white grievance and resentment—trying to profit off the work of a black woman, from an African American family that Trump and his supporters regularly belittle.
Baseless accusations like this, and the media's failure to distinguish between sexual assault and second thoughts, belittle the experiences of genuine victims, impede the fumigation of the Hollywood casting couch and dilute the potency of the #MeToo movement's most effective ingredient: truth.
His love of confrontation, his need always to define himself in relation to an enemy, then to brand and mock and belittle and undermine his opponent until nothing but Trump catchphrases remain, is the inverse of how Washingtonians believe politics should operate.
"Positioning yourself as the only one to beat Trump is a way to belittle Bernie Sanders," said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist who has worked for Clinton in the past but is not doing so in this election cycle.
I feel like, I don't wanna limit it or belittle it, but I think that I don't know how to write for my experience at this point and it's what feels most natural and organic to me, so that's what I do.
Meanwhile, more substantive criticisms struggle to take root — in part because Ocasio-Cortez is quick to acknowledge missteps, but also because she's constantly moving forward, advancing her argument, tweaking the agenda, and otherwise antiquating those cable news chyrons that might seek to belittle her.
The whole thing was pretty awful, with Bateman repeatedly saying "not to belittle it, but..." before immediately belittling her story anyway, continually minimizing Walter's experience as something that just happens on set sometimes and steamrolling her as she and Alia Shawkat tried to argue otherwise.
Haters seek to belittle her accomplishments or to manufacture a myopic kayfabe rivalry with Nicki Minaj rather than acknowledge her role in her boro's musical legacy—one that proudly boasts Big Pun and and the Latinx-centered Terror Squad--as well as its present.
On April 20th, when eight former American treasury secretaries described Britain's departure from the EU as a "risky bet" that would jeopardise the City's role as a global financial centre, their advice was derided as an attempt to belittle Britain's place in the world.
And what I hope they take away is that we have an ethical responsibility to respect belief and not to belittle it (especially if we don't share it), and not write what we want to believe, or, worse, what we think other people will buy.
Second, Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, last month seemed to belittle the medication treatments for opioid addiction that have the best record, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions still seems to think we can jail our way out of the problem.
" He also apologized to the LGBT community for his jokes about Hannity having a same sex relationship with Trump, explaining that "I most certainly did not intend to belittle or upset members of the gay community and to those who took offense, I apologize.
That is below the dignity of this body, to take a world leader and when he doesn't make your case for you, to belittle him, especially, as is often said by the majority, that they're in the middle of a hot war with Russia.
Both Trump and Putin earlier on Thursday praised their first meeting as a success and blamed forces in the United States for trying to belittle its achievements, Trump citing discussions on counterterrorism, Israel's security, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace and North Korea.
"Just because someone has a position of authority doesn't mean they're entitled to belittle and shame others online," said Sue Scheff, a family Internet safety advocate and author of the book "Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate," set to be released in the fall.
Modi, who ordered the statue built on the Narmada river when he was Gujarat chief minister, said last year there had been efforts to "belittle" or "remove from history" the contributions of Patel, who helped unite India's 562 princely states as the first home, or interior, minister.
Why it matters: In a detailed report, the Pennsylvania grand jury not only uncovered a series of abusive behavior by priests, many of whom have since died or left the ministry, but also ongoing efforts by those in authority to belittle and cover up these incidents.
All the stories I've read about a man who's been accused of using his power to belittle, subdue, or assault people — no matter who it's about, no matter which industry it happened in, no matter when the alleged incident(s) took place — have one thing in common.
Researchers then started publicly announcing that they had found a vulnerability, in an effort to get vendors to do something about it— only to have the vendors belittle them, declare their attacks "theoretical" and not worth worrying about, threaten them with legal action, and continue to not fix anything.
I think [Tuesday's Mighty No. 9 tweet] was a case where we're trying to be funny and entertain a bit, but we certainly aren't meaning to offend anyone or to try to belittle any of the work that the developers, in this case for Mighty No. 9, have done.
"As dedicated members of communities, businesses and families, and ambassadors for the Miss America program across the country, we stand firmly against harassment, bullying and shaming -- especially of women -- through the use of derogatory terms meant to belittle and demean," the former Miss Americans said in a statement.
"As dedicated members of communities, businesses and families, and ambassadors for the Miss America program across the country, we stand firmly against harassment, bullying and shaming -- especially of women -- through the use of derogatory terms meant to belittle and demean," the former Miss Americas said in a statement.
The Whistle-Blowers Malcolm Gladwell's comparison of the whistle-blowers Daniel Ellsberg, a member of the intelligence élite, whom Gladwell calls a true "leaker," and Edward Snowden, an outsider, whom he calls merely a "hacker," seems to glorify and belittle them, respectively ("The Outside Man," December 19th & 26th).
The same goes for any person in power who wields that word not to deepen an important conversation, to add historical context to a debate or discussion, to embrace someone as a loved, respected brother (which is how Wilmore used it in reference to Obama) but instead to demean and belittle.
"While we don't think apps like Anorexic Girl cause eating disorders – we know that eating disorders are biologically based mental illnesses with the highest mortality of any psychological illness – they belittle and further stigmatize dangerous disorders," Amy E. Cunningham, co-founder of the International Eating Disorder Action coalition, tells PEOPLE.
"We should never belittle the impact of any one event, but it is part of a situation where we're seeing a broad range of uncertainties in the world right now and sadly, this is just one of them," David Howard-Jones, a partner at consultancy Oliver Wyman, told CNBC's Squawk Box.
When the commissioners veered into Christian doctrine, as in the examples above, they did not "attempt to convert any hearer to change their faith", "belittle those of another faith" or "portend that a person of another faith would be treated any differently by the prayer-giver in the business of the Board".
In this new version, Ali's boss uses the word "entitled" to belittle her (and possibly to imply that she wrongly assumed she would get the job because she's a woman and the team needs the representation), but Ali's co-workers, particularly Max Greenfield's character Kevin, agree that she deserves to have been promoted.
On March 265, 26, a year before becoming president of the Knicks, Jackson sent out a succinct tweet, the first he had ever issued: The message elated the masses on Twitter, where slip-ups and miscues are gobbled up like manna from heaven and where every opportunity to belittle is pounced upon.
But that is to belittle the achievement of a design team that brings the period to vivid life through projections, videos and a set from Phil Lindley, whose details extend to a German-language program for the Ibsen play "John Gabriel Borkman" that was part of the cultural currency of the age.
Last February, when New York state senator Patty Ritchie introduced legislation that would block families receiving food stamp benefits from purchasing "luxury items" like steak, lobster, and decorated cakes, several of my real-life friends and friends-of-friends who read about the story mounted their Facebook soapboxes to chime in and belittle poor people.
Makeup, skin care, or really any form of pampering, is barely mentioned in Kevin Kwan's original novel, and when it is, it's usually to belittle some glamorous billionaire or to suggest that going to a 5-star spa is the best way to unwind after a long day of ruining your son's love life.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Revolving around the desire for an ever more intimate, ever more sensuous relation to objects already regarded as familiar and unthreatening, cuteness is not just an aestheticization but an eroticization of powerlessness, evoking tenderness for "small things" but also, sometimes, a desire to belittle or diminish them further.
And if you have to be a chauvinist or homophobic or hyper-aggressive or super rich or super flashy or super gaudy with your wealth or whatever and just belittle other people, and put yourself on top of the world, and putting people under the ground to be considered hip-hop, they can keep that shit.
" Speaking at a book event on Wednesday, the club's president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, said, "I'd like to think that when the majority of our supporters have expressed themselves by whistling, they haven't done it to belittle any symbols, but to protest against certain attitudes against the people of Catalonia that have taken place in recent years.
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's campaign revealed a person of enormous ego who felt the need to constantly devalue and belittle opponents.
" He continued with another tweet, this time calling out those who criticized him by writing, "Yeah I hear all you b——, I hear all you hatin & tryin to belittle, but I am not brittle & you got me glitchin if you think I'm switchin, so stop all your flexin & stop all your b——, your keyboard words can't put me in stitches #KeepHatin #ItsFuelWhenImWritin.
But for jittery Washington reporters, it was yet another salvo from an administration that has shown an unusual willingness to berate and belittle the news media, at the behest of a president-elect who has floated the idea of rolling back libel protections and, in a volcanic appearance last week, refused to take questions from CNN after it ran a story he did not like.
Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) whom Trump has attacked before with the same name-calling in an effort to belittle her and remind people of the controversy surrounding her campaign for Senate when she claimed Native American ancestry.

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