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demean | American Dictionary

demean
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈmin/
to cause to become less respected:
I wouldn’t demean myself by asking my father for money.

demeaning

adjectiveus/dɪˈmi·nɪŋ/
It was demeaning to be asked to leave because I was dressed informally.

Examples of demean

demean
To be sure, artistic practice itself was not seen to be demeaning or unbecoming of a virtuoso.
Low wages and full savings accounts aside, many ex-soldiers chose not to perform agricultural labor because they thought it demeaning.
Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity.
This served to reinforce the middle-class cultural ascendancy while demeaning the values of another culture.
For example, wrongs of these sorts raise problems of definition, since not ever y intentionally demeaning act is a wrongful insult.
Suffering and sickness, once known, can reduce and demean a person and offer a depressing picture of one's own future.
Race-conscious districting rests on an assumption about individuals that current moral understandings condemn as racially demeaning.
Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people.
They see this as indicating that the provision of support can be demeaning rather than protective of self-esteem.
This involves taking advantage of their irrationality and so is demeaning in a way that reasonable and truthproduced terror is not.
The difference between the two techniques lies in the weights that are used when variables are time demeaned.
In fourteen years of plunder and repression, every significant political and civic institution had been demeaned or destroyed.
Counters think it is okay to be ignorant, a position which ridgeologists find repugnant and even demeaning.
In most clerical quarters, a demeaning internal exile under a hostile regime had not readily given rise to such utilitarian ecclesiological thinking.
To apply for social assistance every month and to be repeatedly assessed as either ' worthy ' or ' not worthy ' is demeaning and difficult to accept.
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