belittle

Sure, he wants to take responsibility – perhaps saving the dozens or hundreds of people who worked on the Trump investigation from being belittled, fired or prosecuted by Trump.

"We got belittled and used and manipulated," he says.

Ms Wright said she felt her complaints had been "belittled".

He said he did not want to "belittle" the allegations, but said the majority of incidents referred to the period before a new action plan was implemented.

An investigation by Swedish news outlet Aftonbladet reported that 11 current and former employees described being belittled, called names and yelled at in the workplace.