degrading
adjective
that degrades; debasing; humiliating.
degradingly
-
a word derived from
degrading.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
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
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 John Dewey
It has damaged me in two ways—it has made it sometimes difficult to give my mind to my work, and it has made me, often, rather degradingly jealous of Jane.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
