While most of Fryer's colleagues consider him blazingly smart, he constantly belittles his own intellect.

We tend to think of cruelty as incorporating violence, but equally cruel is the father who constantly belittles his son or daughter in front of others.

It becomes key to how blacks stay grounded and learn to move and progress in a society that constantly belittles their worth.

She constantly belittled him, then expected him to serve her like a slave all her life.

He had a horrible relationship with his mother Clarnell, a violent alcoholic who would constantly belittle and humiliate him.

The media constantly belittles these initiatives as "bite-sized" and laments the absence of bold, sweeping presidential vision.

Maggie had made him appreciate Lachlan's gentleness, something Patrick constantly belittled.

However, she constantly belittles Charlotte, disapproving everything she does.

He was deprived of friends his own age, constantly belittled, worked to the point of exhaustion and watched like a prisoner.

She would also constantly belittle him and treat him with disdain, as well as abuse him.