Crossword clues for demeaning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, present participle adjective from demean (v.). Related: Demeaningly.
Wiktionary
degrading; that degrades v
(present participle of demean English)
WordNet
adj. causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
Usage examples of "demeaning".
Q In this vein do you recall making the distinction between protection for the expression and for the idea unless the idea is copied in a vulgar and demeaning way, when it becomes an abuse?
Q And as a result of these alterations, the idea has been copied in a vulgar and demeaning way, do you agree?
Q Now you stated earlier, did you not, your belief that an idea is protected in its expression against being copied in a vulgar and demeaning way?
Q So on the one hand you would enjoin Joe Blow from presenting what you consider a crude, vulgar, demeaning expression of an idea which you feel you have made your own, exalting it to a protected status through your own unique artistic expression, while on the other hand you have no hesitation at all in offering us a parable from one of the greatest minds in western history dressed in this manifestly crude, vulgar and hence debased version, with the temerity to label it homage into the bargain.
Haplo doesn't give a reason for this change, but it is probable that he agreed with Limbeck that "Geg" was a demeaning term.
Several other demeaning terms have been invented in the hope that the press and public will leave the original sense of the word alone.
They have plenty of money with which to push their calculated public image, but they waste much energy and goodwill attacking one another with slanderous and demeaning ad campaigns.
In humiliating me, whom Canka treated with respect and honor, he was, in effect, demeaning Canka.
Too, in an interesting concession to putative sexual difference, sexuality, by the Waniyanpi, is regarded as being demeaning to women.
In such matters they would not consider what would make the women most happy but rather would take their enslavement, irrationally, as being somehow demeaning or insulting to them personally.
Not only is she likely to be lowered on the chain, perhaps even to “last girl,” which is demeaning to her, and a great blow to her vanity, but she is likely to be encouraged to greater efforts by a variety of admonitory devices, in particular, the switch and whip.
This he seemed to feel was appropriate, such demeaning, servile labors, for the daughter of Marlenus of Ar.
I decided to call Doltmeer and ask for a new assignment, which almost certainly he wouldn't give me, unless it was more demeaning and pointless than what I wanted to escape.
I'll call you if I can find a demeaning and tedious assignment more pleasing to you.
If this young Grittleton had taken her fancy I'd have thanked God on my knees, for all she'd have been demeaning herself, she being above the Astleys' cut, but she didn't.