Belittling awful creep during romantic activity (11)
I believe the answer is:
deprecating
'belittling' is the definition.
(I know that belittling can be written as deprecating)
'awful creep during romantic activity' is the wordplay.
'awful' is an anagram indicator.
'during' is an insertion indicator.
'romantic activity' becomes 'dating' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'creep' with letters rearranged gives 'eprec'.
'eprec' placed into 'dating' is 'DEPRECATING'.
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