| If you belittle their opinions or dismiss their problems, they'll stop talking to you. |
| In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual. |
| And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time? |
| He does not dismiss or belittle the gifts and talents that his Creator endowed to him. |
| It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world. |
| I don't think it's fair to belittle the efforts of so many scientists and engineers simply because the end vehicle may prove to be inviable. |
