demeaning
Example Sentences
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The speakers are often ill-prepared and sometimes glib, demeaning what they should be illuminating.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Bureaucrats have bristled at the term as misleading and demeaning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Especially when it became clear that the writers thought it made perfect sense to keep Carrie and Aidan’s children separate — so unbelievable, and demeaning to both characters.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Two other officers, PC Victoria Wray and PC Rafal Szmydynski, are also accused of breaching professional police standards after allegedly being involved in an "unjustified", "disproportionate" and "demeaning" strip-search.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025
But what none of us realized was how demeaning and degrading this actually was.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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