degrading
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"It was a very degrading situation and there was no care about my welfare," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
A few months later, he found degrading posters of his head on a child’s body shoved inside his uniform pockets and gun holster and plastered over the station walls, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
"This surprised me because I like animals and I feel proud to call myself one. I've never looked down upon them, so to call human beings animals is not, to me, degrading."
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
They also justify his choice to continue the campaign, degrading Iran’s missile and drone infrastructure and thereby its ability to support proxies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Each, I felt, was degrading, and I thought we should insist on the honorific “Mister.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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