demeaning

How To Use demeaning In A Sentence

• They are demeaning the quality of public discourse, and setting an appalling example to young people. Times, Sunday Times
• 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'
• The Commission for Racial Equality among others said the black makeup was demeaning to black people.
• Virtually every Native American organization has condemned the use of demeaning images or mascots.
• All these government programs are invasive of privacy, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient.
• Welfare reformers have imagined that in forcing people to work, a demeaning chapter would close in their lives.
• Singling out people for praise can be difficult as it risks demeaning the achievements of others.
• Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
• He found it very demeaning to have to work for his former employee.
• Yet is there not something trivial and demeaning about insisting that the'real' meaning of ancient texts is the path to peace and common understanding? Times, Sunday Times