demean

How To Use demean In A Sentence

• His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
• The old soldier never lost his military demeanor.
• Too many people, though - many of them female - still seem to think that a woman demeans herself when she wears a revealing dress.
• Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud 
• Sure enough, this Heller language has served to protect a remarkable variety of federal gun restrictions challenged since Heller, including bans on gun possession by felons, domestic violence misdemeanants, and persons under restraining orders, bans on sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, laws restricting guns in school zones, post offices, and other public property, and others. Dennis A. Henigan: The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?
• They are demeaning the quality of public discourse, and setting an appalling example to young people. Times, Sunday Times
• His demeanor, though somewhat guarded, is more small-town high school football star than newly minted teen heartthrob. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 18TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
• Le sigh! at the Beau's increasing inability to control his demeanor and imbibing, and his inability to move Seattle to London or arsy-versy. What blokes say
• Ask your followers to STOP attacking her in demeaning ways. not because she is a woman but because you CONTINUALLY espouse change but do little to make your followers see change as accepting old guard while creating the new guard. Clinton: 'I've never given up on you'
• I do this not to demean the contributions of the Air Force or its airmen.