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
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
“We are diminishing and demeaning the quality of our public environment, because we’re responding to this social and economic problem without treating the cause.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
Unlike other positions afforded to Colored people, where the pay was low and the work was demeaning, teachers were well respected by the community.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
