degrading

How To Use degrading In A Sentence

• Tarsus was the center of a species of Baal-worship of an imposing but unspeakably degrading character, and at certain seasons of the year it was the scene of festivals, which were frequented by the whole population of the neighboring regions, and were accompanied with orgies of a degree of moral abominableness happily beyond the reach even of our imaginations. The Life of St. Paul
• Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
• What did she ever do to deserve such degrading treatment?
• Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren. TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
• No one should have to suffer such degrading treatment.
• Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores. MicrobiologyBytes
• Once you get to a substantive compliance analysis for "cruel, inhuman, and degrading" you get the position that the substantive standard is the same as it is in analogous U.S. constitutional law. Shock the Conscience
• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot 
• Dante would usually take over and spoon-feed me, making my situation all the more degrading.
• The primary motive is to free the self from a life that is necessarily rendered crass and degrading by society.