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
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 Constance Garnett
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
I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
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
