degrading
that degrades; debasing; humiliating: degrading submission.
Origin of degrading
1Other words from degrading
- de·grad·ing·ly, adverb
- de·grad·ing·ness, noun
- non·de·grad·ing, adjective
- un·de·grad·ing, adjective
Words Nearby degrading
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How to use degrading in a sentence
This helps protect the bottom of your outdoor fire pit from oxidizing and degrading.
The best fire pit for outdoors: Spark up some backyard fun | Florie Korani | July 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBut, ultimately, that does not change the reality that the Palestinians live in conditions that are demeaning and degrading.
The only way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem | Fareed Zakaria | May 20, 2021 | Washington PostA June 2020 report by PAX used satellite images to show how persistent pollution from a degrading oil facility has led to tens-of-thousands of barrels of oil flowing into canals and creeks and ending up in the 100-mile-long river.
How Syria's Decade-Long War Has Left a Toxic Environmental Legacy | Joseph Hincks | March 15, 2021 | TimeAs a scholar, Seidule could no longer make excuses for the violent and degrading slave culture of the South.
It’s hard to assess how Gerda felt about such degrading treatment.
What We Can Learn About Nazi Psychology From the Wives of Hitler’s Top Officials | James Wyllie | November 12, 2020 | Time
This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror | David Keyes | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is not merely morally absurd to suggest that facts do not matter; as a person of color, it is insulting and degrading.
Dear White People: Well-Meaning Paternalism Is Still Racist | Chloé Valdary | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe some light domination but nothing that can be considered degrading.
Stop Blaming Christy Mack: Porn Stars Don’t Deserve to Be Beaten | Samantha Allen | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI could see what it had cost her, being put in that degrading place.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul | Rilla Askew | May 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe 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.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayI could not help feeling how degrading it was to human beings to employ them as beasts of burden.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferThe priests of Egypt ruled by appealing to the fears of men, thus favoring a degrading superstition.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordTo converse with men of degraded minds is in itself degrading, at least if you possess not virtue very superior to mine.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoThey had imperfect and even degrading ideas of the gods, but acknowledged their existence and their power.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord
British Dictionary definitions for degrading
/ (dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ) /
causing humiliation; debasing
Derived forms of degrading
- degradingly, adverb
- degradingness, noun
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