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Definition of degrading : of Degrade

Synonyms:

harmful, humiliating, contaminating, insulting, dishonorable, libellous, disdainful, derogative, demeaning, pejorative, noxious, disparaging, slighting, uncomplimentary, defamatory, bad, scornful, depreciative, slanderous, scurrilous, detractive, contemptuous, discreditable, decrying, denigratory, denigrative, compromising, dishonourable, study at mean, derisory, depreciatory, disgraceful, deprecatory, shameful

maligning, dishonoring, mocking, shaming, disgracing, embarrassing, defaming, abasing

maltreating, ill-treating, misusing, violating, despoiling, ill-using, defiling, abusing

distorting, perverting, adulterating, debasing, depraving, corrupting, desecrating, demoralizing, debauching, twisting, deforming, vitiating, warping, seducing

cheapening, reducing, devaluating, shaving, trimming, belittling, cutting, lowering, paring, slashing, discounting, devaluing, marking down, deflating, depreciating, diminishing

Usage examples:

• " All, and more than all, which that degrading engagement could imply, I will do. - "Basil", Wilkie Collins.
• Shaw urged, in effect, that Home Rule was as bad as Home Influences and Home Cooking, and all the other degrading domesticities that began with the word " Home." - "George Bernard Shaw", Gilbert K. Chesterton.
• All my life I have had one steady aim before me, and that has been to purify and ennoble the detective service; and I am sure that all this sort of business is degrading in the extreme to operatives engaged upon it. - "The Spiritualists and the Detectives", Allan Pinkerton.