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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

What is terrible is that there is nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting and degradingly inane.

From The Jew and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame

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

That this sacred passion has been most degradingly abused is witnessed to upon almost every hand.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert