Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a degrading manner, or in a way to depreciate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a degrading manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
degrading manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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No! The GOP has sold out – for a degradingly cheap price – a once-noble political insight.
Matthew Yglesias » The Costs of Ideological Correctness 2009
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Underwear models are invariably Caucasians because Chinese blanch when fellow citizens strike a degradingly erotic pose.
Tom Doctoroff: Sex in China: Prudence and Prurience Tom Doctoroff 2010
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(Underwear models are invariably Caucasians because Chinese blanch when fellow citizens strike a degradingly erotic pose.)
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(Underwear models are invariably Caucasians because Chinese blanch when fellow citizens strike a degradingly erotic pose.)
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If a woman commits adultery she is degradingly punished, but if a man does it nothing is wrong, he can simply have four wives and as many liasons as he wishes.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Ay, and more than that, you have spoken degradingly of the blessed appeal to God in the combat of ordeal.
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It’s also worth noticing that (however her politics) Jane Fonda uses the word precisely right: to refer (not unapprovingly) to a woman’s private parts, not degradingly to the woman herself. “Ass” or “asshole” are similarly unobjectionable when they refer to a donkey or the anus, but not when employed to characterize the whole human being.
Congratulations to Jane Fonda! Ann Althouse 2008
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No, charming Camilla, think not so degradingly of her whom fate, in its sole pitying interval, has cast into thy arms. '
Camilla 2008
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When the show came to an end, and the contestants were forced to degradingly beg themselves out of elimination, I sat contemplating how VH1 had managed to make a farce of a television business taken very seriously outside of mainstream America.
Lauren J. Rivera: "Viva Hollywood!!": What a Caliente Mess! 2008
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Elitism is wisdom, and the republicans call democrats elitists degradingly because we drink lattes and read books.
Re-framing "Elitist" for Red America, the Bible Favors Wisdom not Wealth 2006
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