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adjectivethat degrades; debasing; humiliating: degrading submission. Origin of degradingFirst recorded in 1675–85; degrade + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM degradingde·grad·ing·ly, adverbde·grad·ing·ness, nounnon·de·grad·ing, adjectiveun·de·grad·ing, adjectiveWords nearby degradingdegradable, degradation, degradation of energy, degrade, degraded, degrading, degranulation, de gratia, degrease, degree, degree-day Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for degradingThis is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure. The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is not merely morally absurd to suggest that facts do not matter; as a person of color, it is insulting and degrading. Dear White People: Well-Meaning Paternalism Is Still Racist|Chloé Valdary|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST I could see what it had cost her, being put in that degrading place. The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul|Rilla Askew|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST She calls shady allusions about her family “defamatory and degrading,” and “clearly anti-Semitic.” We Watch the DSK Sex Romp So You Don’t Have To|Tracy McNicoll|May 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“It would be degrading but we would be degrateful,” assured Poehler. The Crazy Emmy Awards 2013: Wild Upsets, Odd Hosting & More (VIDEO)|Kevin Fallon|September 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Shall we form our customs on the principle that labor is degrading, and indolence genteel? A Treatise on Domestic Economy|Catherine Esther Beecher They did not look upon labor as degrading, but as ennobling. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field|Charles Carleton Coffin Abused him for degrading his son, and driving him to his terrible death. Of High Descent|George Manville Fenn And how much further before he began to feel that he was degrading their love? The Saracen: Land of the Infidel|Robert Shea "Whip," he was about to say, but skipped the degrading word. Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty|J. W. de Forest
British Dictionary definitions for degrading
adjectivecausing humiliation; debasing Derived forms of degradingdegradingly, adverbdegradingness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to degradingderogatory, humiliating, disgraceful, demeaning, lowering, cheapening, downgrading |