degrading

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What it cost me is of no consequence now; what it is now costing you I cannot help Yet, your letter, in every line, seems to imply some strange responsibility on my part for what you speak of as the degrading position you now occupy Degradation or not--let us leave that aside; you cannot now avoid being his wife.

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  1. adjective Tending or intended to degrade: "There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood” (W. Somerset Maugham).

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  • While some may feel the job of a stripper is degrading, there's no denying that it is very lucrative. —  billingsgazette.com
  • These policies aim to "support an environment in which harassment of others is not tolerated" and foster "constructive engagement without degrading, abusing, harassing or silencing others." —  Stories from The Sun
  • What it cost me is of no consequence now; what it is now costing you I cannot help Yet, your letter, in every line, seems to imply some strange responsibility on my part for what you speak of as the degrading position you now occupy Degradation or not--let us leave that aside; you cannot now avoid being his wife. —  The Younger Set
  • A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the p s contend which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution. —  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750
  • However, in real life, occupation and counter-insurgency are a nasty, degrading, and bloody business. —  David Seaton's News Links
 

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/dəˈgreɪdɪŋ/
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