Crossword clues for demeaned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demean \De*mean"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demeaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning.] [OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se d['e]mener to struggle; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.]
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To manage; to conduct; to treat.
[Our] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter.
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To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
They have demeaned themselves Like men born to renown by life or death.
--Shak.They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.
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To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter.
--Thackeray.Note: This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: demean)
Usage examples of "demeaned".
After having demeaned President Bush as a lightweight frat boy hopelessly ignorant of foreign policy, even Democrats were overcome with relief that Al Gore was not the president.
Consequently, she is demeaned and censored by the champions of women’s advancement.
Schlafly is preposterously demeaned with articles reporting that she is trying to remain “relevant.
Bush’s most impressive qualities included every single point for which he had been demeaned during the campaign.
And Covenant's glare burned against the back of her neck as if she were participating in the way the Elohim demeaned him.
Rather, we have been reft of the Haruchai our companions and demeaned in ourselves.
But that feeling will pass--I’m surprised it hasn’t passed already--and then you will remember that I am an Earthman and you will feel ashamed, demeaned, and dirtied.
Consequently, she is demeaned and censored by the champions of women's advancement.
Schlafly is preposterously demeaned with articles reporting that she is trying to remain "relevant.
Bush's most impressive qualities included every single point for which he had been demeaned during the campaign.
But he so much scorned their charity and publically defied the uttermost of their cruelty, he wisely prevented their policies, though he could not suppress their envies, yet so well he demeaned himself in this business, as all the company did see his innocency, and his adversaries' malice, and those suborned to accuse him accused his accusers of subornation.
A month those Barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himselfe amongst them, as he not only diverted them from surprising the Fort, but procured his own liberty, and got himselfe and his company such estimation amongst them, that those Salvages admired him as a demi-God.
Sixe or seven weekes those Barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphes and conjurations they made of him, yet hee so demeaned himselfe amongst them, as he not onely diverted them from surprising the Fort, but procured his owne libertie, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those Salvages admired him more than their owne Quiyouckosucks.