demeaning
Example Sentences
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She works hard through her pregnancy, taking on dubious and demeaning jobs, exhausting herself to an unhealthy degree and trying, at one point, to break up a violent fight between her unhappily married parents.
From Los Angeles Times
“I barely knew this man. It was the most demeaning thing ever done to me by far. It sickens me still. … He made me feel like an object, like nothing, with all his power.”
From Los Angeles Times
The video from Severna Park High School showed a student using a racial epithet and “belittling and demeaning” phrases toward a student with special needs.
From Washington Post
None of this gets to the current events — reports in The Washington Post that detailed consistent, demeaning and misogynistic behavior toward women by multiple team employees over a period of years.
From Washington Post
The dress code is denounced as demeaning to women.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
