demeaning
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Title IX was meant to combat demeaning and exclusionary sex stereotypes.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It was demeaning to those you owed a duty of care to. I do not expect you were naive in this matter. The public must have confidence in those who provide care," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
He stumbled into his fate by saying demeaning, insulting things that could have been phrased diplomatically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
From my perspective as a political philosopher, these and other similar claims indicate he is speaking falsely as a way of demeaning or taunting his detractors.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
His story makes clear that education is a long, unglamorous, even demeaning process—a nurturing never natural to the person one was before one entered a classroom.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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