Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. 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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- v. Present participle of degrade.
- adj. that degrades
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. causing humiliation or degradation.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dishonoring; debasing; disgraceful: as, degrading obsequiousness.
- Lowering; bringing to a lower level; wearing down.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
- adj. harmful to the mind or morals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nero's boyish pride by taunting him with what she called his degrading and unmanly subjection to his mother.
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The Pentagon is not succeeding in degrading the Taliban's military capacity.
Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
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But the Pentagon is, apparently, succeeding in degrading the Taliban's political capacity: in particular, the Taliban's political capacity to strike a deal that ends the war and enforce the deal on its mid-level commanders and footsoldiers.
Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
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He said some immigrants were being detained in degrading conditions, and cited numerous allegations of beatings by police officers.
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I hope that this time we are not the leader in degrading our democracy, but have the wisdom to direct our outrage to produce a better government.
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Ask instead if something truly harmful and degrading is being glorified.
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"We are seeing an alarming trend in degrading financial health," said Navy Capt.
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Because the notion that it�s inherently degrading is so ubiquitious, it is de facto humiliating and opting out is no more optional than asserting that pissing your pants in public isn�t humiliating just because you say so.
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the whole issue of the women in the ring and what they call degrading and demeaning behavior towards women.
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"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.
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