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demeaning

adjective

de·​mean·​ing di-ˈmē-niŋ How to pronounce demeaning (audio)
: damaging or lowering the character, status, or reputation of someone or something
The work was dirty and demeaning, though not quite as somber as it sounds. Gillian Beer
He changed one song title … to slip around radio's reluctance to play songs with demeaning words in them … Neil Strauss
[Sylvia Plath] is most helpfully linked, not to the demeaning disputes of her milieu, but to such powerful predecessors as Theodore Roethke, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and above all Emily Dickinson. Joyce Carol Oates
demeaningly adverb
When Lorna … takes control of the inmates' pharmacy, she decides that no one needs medication. It's her belief that those who are demeaningly labeled "crazy" are given medication in order to stifle their uniqueness … Sophie-Marie Prime

Word History

Etymology

from present participle of demean entry 1

First Known Use

1770, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of demeaning was in 1770

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