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Degrading

adjective

Harmful to the mind or morals. Synonym: corrupting. "The vicious and degrading cult of violence"

Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor. Synonym: debasing.

Degrade

verb

(past & past part. degraded; pres. part. degrading)

Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.

Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally. Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down. "His critics took him down after the lecture"

Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth. Synonym: cheapen.

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"Degrading" Quotes from Famous Books

... the blame entirely on the English, and spoke with great bitterness of the ill-treatment of Philip, the native chief, who came as passenger in the ship. He described and mimicked his cleaning shoes and knives; his being flogged when he refused to do this degrading work; and, finally, his speech to his countrymen when he came on shore, soliciting their assistance in capturing the vessel, and revenging his ill-treatment. Over and over again our friend George, ...

— A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 • Augustus Earle

... form no opinion," he replied. "I have no idea. I was lying in a ditch inanimate. This is a degrading confession, sir; I can only say in self-defence that perhaps (in your good nature) you have made yourself partly responsible for my shame. I am not used to these ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... earth with useless and unfortunate beings. This changed view upon population will partly follow from the substitution of rational ideas for those prejudices which have penetrated morals with an austerity that is corrupting and degrading.[77] The movement will be further aided by one of the most important steps in human progress—the destruction, namely, of the prejudices that have established inequality of rights between the two sexes, and which are so mischievous even to ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley

... gone, the young campaign manager had an attack of moral nausea. It seemed such a prodigious waste of time and energy to traffic and chaffer with these petty scoundrels. Thus far, every phase of the actual political problem seemed to be meanly degrading, and he was beginning to long keenly for an opportunity to do some really ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... was the famous New York Committee of Seventy, organized in 1894 after Dr. Parkhurst's lurid disclosures of police connivance with every degrading vice. A call was issued by thirty-three well-known citizens for a non-partizan mass meeting, and at this meeting a committee of seventy was appointed "with full power to confer with other anti-Tammany organizations, and to take such actions as may be necessary to further the objects of this ...

— The Boss and the Machine • Samuel P. Orth

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