degrading
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5.5
- adjective
- /dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ/
:
humillante
- She felt that the way he treated her was degrading and made her question her worth.
- degrading treatment
- degrading treatment or punishment
- humiliating and degrading
Nothing seems too cheap or degrading to be played for a laugh.
- Nothing seems too cheap or degrading to be played for a laugh.
- To what extent is cruel and inhuman degrading treatment always that?
- There could be actually some quite, you know, gross and degrading and terrible things too.
- And the whole thing was, I mean, it was so degrading.
- That Brennan says the punishment must not be degrading.
- In the same book and she talks about in the previous discussion, she talks about parents can't control this, factory work is degrading.
- Fraternities delighted in and got away with drunken, degrading, dangerous behaviors and scurrilous verbal assaults on women's students.
- That could be, you know, it could just be, you know, degrading.
- But Justice Brennan's concern about the punishment not be being unnecessarily degrading.
- because it's like you start, you weigh your choices. And for me, if it's gonna be too degrading
- And then I finally stepped up to the point where I was like, I want to these men and like a degrading way.
- So it was just degrading to any sort of serious attitude towards violence against women and girls.
Examples
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There have been newspaper articles condemning the 'latest dance fads' as immoral and degrading.
Academic text (1995) -
Williams (1996) stated that this type of activity is humiliating, embarrassing, degrading, emotionally scarring, painful, and damaging to students.
Academic text (2014) -
Your language is very degrading to this group.
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You have any idea how degrading that is?
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Being a shot boy is so degrading.
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Could anything be more degrading?
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To have a partner do this feels degrading and you can see it may make other people around you uncomfortable.
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Women are subjected to equally degrading behavior in Muslim societies.
Academic text (2004) -
The perpetrators, in other words, cannot claim not to know the degrading and humiliating effects of their actions.
Academic text (2006) -
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Blog text (33)
Synonyms
121
3.0
Not polite to someone, for example interrupting them
89
4.7
Causing shame because it is morally wrong
80
4.5
Making someone feel embarrassed or ashamed in front of other people
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3.0
Very bad or shocking behaviour that makes people lose respect
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6.9
Expressing an insulting, disrespectful view of someone or something
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4.8
Making someone feel small and unimportant
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4.7
Appearing or behaving in a way that makes people lose respect
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7.0
Making someone feel very embarrassed or ashamed
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7.0
Showing a low opinion of someone or something
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6.9
Showing that you think something is not good or important
Making someone feel ashamed or less respected
To make a person feel ashamed and lose respect
Treated as if you have no feelings or worth
Causing someone to feel ashamed or embarrassed in front of other people
Made to seem less important or less valued by other people
Showing that someone or something is not important and often insulting them
Showing little respect and trying to make someone feel unimportant
Antonyms
How Degrading
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word degrading comes from two parts: de- meaning 'down' and grade meaning 'step' or 'rank', the same root as the common word grade. So, to degrade someone is like 'stepping them down', which is why degrading means making someone lose dignity or respect.