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degrading
[ dih-grey-ding ]
degrading
/ dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ /
adjective
- causing humiliation; debasing
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Derived Forms
- deˈgradingness, noun
- deˈgradingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- de·grading·ly adverb
- de·grading·ness noun
- nonde·grading adjective
- unde·grading adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of degrading1
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Example Sentences
This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.
It is not merely morally absurd to suggest that facts do not matter; as a person of color, it is insulting and degrading.
Maybe some light domination but nothing that can be considered degrading.
I could see what it had cost her, being put in that degrading place.
She calls shady allusions about her family “defamatory and degrading,” and “clearly anti-Semitic.”
In England the French ambassador had been the object of a degrading worship.
I could not help feeling how degrading it was to human beings to employ them as beasts of burden.
The priests of Egypt ruled by appealing to the fears of men, thus favoring a degrading superstition.
To converse with men of degraded minds is in itself degrading, at least if you possess not virtue very superior to mine.
They had imperfect and even degrading ideas of the gods, but acknowledged their existence and their power.
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