belittling

nouns

a belittling comment
belittling, denigration
the act of belittling
belittling
is a type of (narrower)
the act of speaking contemptuously of
disparagement, dispraise

adjectives

tending to diminish or disparage
"belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark"
belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting