belittling

belittling
    adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
           "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
           "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
           remark" [syn: {belittling}, {deprecating}, {deprecative},
           {deprecatory}, {depreciative}, {depreciatory},
           {slighting}]
    n 1: a belittling comment [syn: {denigration}, {belittling}]
    2: the act of belittling
    

Belittle \Be*lit"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belittled}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Belittling}.]
   To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a
   depreciatory or contemptuous way. --T. Jefferson.
   [1913 Webster]
    

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "belittling":
      abusive, back-biting, belittlement, bitchy, calumniatory,
      calumnious, catty, censorious, comedown, contempt, contemptuous,
      contumelious, decrial, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciation,
      depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogation,
      derogative, derogatory, detraction, detractory, disapproval,
      discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, disparaging, faint praise,
      indignity, knocking, libelous, lukewarm support, minification,
      minimization, minimizing, pejorative, putting down, qualification,
      ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous,
      slighting, sour grapes, vilifying