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
“The manner in which some of the individuals were detained and deported — including the use of shackles on them — as well as the demeaning rhetoric used against migrants, has also been profoundly disturbing.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
"I can't express how sad, stressful, demeaning even, it feels," says Mrs Marini, originally from Italy.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025
Bijan seemed to feel sorry for me in a way that I found only a little demeaning, so I didn’t mind his company.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
