degrading
adjective
that degrades; debasing; humiliating.
degradingly
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a word derived from
degrading.
Example Sentences
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One 1962 poll of American historians and political scientists placed him rather degradingly in the spot between Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur: a mediocre and listless ex-soldier summoned from the links.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lamb admitted that they were degradingly immoral—if you took them seriously and accepted them as pictures of life.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
We are far from thinking of Mr. Moore as Lord Byron either did or does; not so degradingly as his Lordship did in 1810; not so extravagantly as he does in 1813.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
It was so easy, so degradingly easy, to pull the strings of the poor old puppet in any way I pleased!
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
How worse than empty are all our pratings about divine fatherhood if we illustrate its meaning only degradingly or misleadingly!
From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
