degradingly
- 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
No doubt he knew that at times she believed him to be horrible, suspected him of nameless things, of abominable relationships; no doubt he knew that she was degradingly jealous of him.
From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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 Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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 Matthews, Brander
To learn the lesson is more interesting than to take a scolding, be held up to general ridicule, stay after school, receive degradingly low marks, or fail to be promoted.
From The Child and the Curriculum by Dewey, John
