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degrading
Word definitions for degrading in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
degrading \de*grad"ing\, a. causing humiliation or degradation; as, a degrading surrender.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence" [syn: corrupting ] used of conduct; characterized by dishonor [syn: debasing ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN treatment ▪ A study by Harriet and Sarah Harman, for example, documents appalling and degrading treatment of elderly people in private homes. ▪ Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
that degrades v (present participle of degrade English)
Usage examples of degrading.
We are going to destroy all enslaving anil degrading capitalist institutions and re-create them as free and humanizing institutions.
Schuschnigg had been arrested and subjected to treatment so degrading that it is difficult to believe that it was not prescribed by Hitler himself.
After a while his organs had begun to degenerate, depleted calcium levels had reduced his bones to brittle porcelain sticks, muscles had atrophied, and fluid bloated his tissues, impairing his lungs, degrading his lymphatic system.
Latin peruse the extracts I give from Bishop Kenrick, Debreyne, Burchard, Dens or Liguori, and the most incredulous will learn for themselves that the world, even in the darkest ages of old paganism, has never seen anything so infamous and degrading as auricular confession.
As for the Corticelli, she soon passed from tears to laughter, and would have done it well, but if, as I feared, the canon was a blockhead, I should have been degrading myself.
Their pursuer was barreling through the haze of bomblets, but the data was degrading as the other car fell farther behind.
Ritz and Edi, seemed to her a degrading of their names and an injustice to her favorites.
In addition to the ubiquitous geisha, there were now the two unfortunate young women who had recently entered a most degrading slavery in his household as concubines.
When I saw that the wretched poltroon was receiving such degrading treatment without remembering that he had a sword hanging by his side, I left the room, and asked the landlord to order me a carriage to take me to Padua.
But now that she thinks that she had to do with a servant, and after the degrading visit she has had she ought to die of rage and shame.
They felt worthy of my regard, as they had lavished their favours on me without any degrading feelings, and drawn by the same emotion that had drawn me.
Emily, which, amidst the dissipation of the city had been obscured, but never obliterated from his heart, revived with all the charms of innocence and beauty, to reproach him for having sacrificed his happiness and debased his talents by pursuits, which his nobler faculties would formerly have taught him to consider were as tasteless as they were degrading.
She submitted to degrading encounters in the cottage with Oyama, who mocked her past even as he took his pleasure from her.
This experience of a spiritual exaltation above the sins and degrading turmoils of passion, above the perishing baubles of the earth, into the religious principles which are independent and assured, peace, and bliss, and eternity, is attainable by all who with the earnestness of their souls assimilate the moral truths of Christianity, pressing in pious trust after the steps of the risen Master.
It was inconvenient, unjust, and degrading to the character of the house, it was asserted, to descend into the politics of borough elections, and that applications like this ought to be resisted.