degrading
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That quote was also cited by Nowak's family, who called his treatment by police "inhumane and degrading" and the force has apologised.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
It has isolated us and attached us to an impersonal and degrading consumer market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Dodsworth said the following day, when Wignall was arrested, she went to a local police station where she spent 10 hours making statements "about some of the most intimate, degrading points of my life".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
I assume you’re going to live in this new home for the next 20-odd years, and that you have the means to upgrade without degrading your retirement fund.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing degrading
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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They Called Us Enemy
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