bagatellize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To regard as a bagatelle; to play down, trivialize or belittle. rare,transitive
    — Both at Mari and in Assyria, the prophetic demands for cultic perfection and social justice were theologically based on the divinely sanctioned position of the king between the gods and his people. Therefore, the criticism of the prophets should not be bagatellized, even though it may appear to us as pedantic or indifferent from the ethical point of view.²⁶

词形变化

bagatellizes present,singular,third-person bagatellizing participle,present bagatellized participle,past bagatellized past bagatellise alternative

词源

From bagatelle (“trifle; insubstantial thing”) + -ize. Compare German bagatellisieren.
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