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.

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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
They started pillaring and demeaning all of those guys who were actually responsible then for re-fixing the books. CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009
People who speak that way are speaking in pejorative, demeaning terms.
The compensation has provoked claims of misusing public funds and demeaning the value of a disabled person's life. Times, Sunday Times
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Louisiana is blasting the new ad, "Welcome Prize," as "demeaning" and "racist. David Vitter's new ad trafficks heavily in race-baiting
The Commission for Racial Equality among others said the black makeup was demeaning to black people.
People, often children, are forced to do demeaning and often health destroying jobs. Try knotting Oriental carpets all day and see how long you keep your sight.
Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul
I forgot how demeaning it is to get rejected for a job you're overqualified for and really didn't want in the first place.
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
He was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating.
To say Obama is "Reaganesque" is demeaning by Stanimal on Thursday, Apr 30, 2009 at 4: 03: 13 PM One Hundred Days of President Barack Obama: So Far, So Good
If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate.
Now, this writer has absolutely no interest in demeaning the dignity nor importance of the life that the late Christopher Reeve lead in his final decade prior to his accident. Archive 2006-01-01
Those who consider it demeaning to the concept of human reproduction need not play and can save the modest 20 cost. The Sun
It demeans the people who do this work by telling them that their work is not important - that it is low-grade and demeaning.
Nearly all of the detainees were released and deported, although only after months of cruel and demeaning treatment.
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
He's hanging around the writers to get a job, hoping for a better-paid class of soulless and demeaning media work.
When judicial matters are one of the principal foci of borough and national records, we unavoidably receive an impression, not so much exaggerated as unbalanced, of the misdemeaning or felonious conduct of townsmen.
Grit seeped up through the floorboards and got everywhere, even into the crème brûlée, for which Carol had developed a demeaning craving. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
In the modern state of heightened wariness, staring like a dullard sounds no more demeaning than walking in your socks through airport security.
Do not confront anyone who is making disparaging or demeaning remarks or exhibiting threatening behavior
Apart from the choice of judges, the PR machine going way beyond its remit by overselling a priapic coke-user whom they then had to sack, being deserted by Simon Cowell and then, after various related kerfuffles, turned down by Cheryl Cole, and beaten demeaningly and unaccountably in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing, and not actually having quite enough people who could … sing … the song choices were the worse. Amelia Lily, X Factor's comeback queen, reaches end of road in talent show final
At least we no longer have to listen to her demeaning comments.
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
In an obvious and grotesque way, the Hillary nutcracker is insulting, demeaning, and offensive --- offensive in the sense of intending to put women on the defensive. The doll and the nutcracker
It wasn't demeaning, or if it was, it hurt him more, as I came off the carnal innocent, surviving only on instinct not knowledge.
One of the beauties of adult life is no longer having to be answerable to others in the way that we are when we're younger, and another is enjoying the vantage point of the outsider once it's stripped of its socially demeaning cachet.
Legislation against racist language and behaviour became a model for identifying varieties of harassment and discrimination in the workplace and in the public arena of comment and discussion; pressure has increased for what might be called an 'isomorphic' approach in law to any act or form of words that could be interpreted as stigmatising others or demeaning their human dignity – hence the 'Single Equality' legislation we have seen developed and debated lately. Archbishop's lecture - Religious Hatred and Religious Offence
In Italy, where for years Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has regularly made sexual innuendoes and jokes, the premier's recent trial on charges of paying an underage girl for sex—charges he denies—has prompted women's groups to protest what they call the male establishment's demeaning attitude toward women. Across Europe, Views on Strauss-Kahn Diverge
The inherent demeaning nature of such language is inadvertent, I am sure.
A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.
I do take issue with the insensitive, unthoughtful and demeaning comments made about the premises, which I feel reflect badly on the good name of the business.
My understanding of the meaning of the Spanish word macho in México is that it is generally a demeaning term, probably very close to the meaning of the word “chauvinist” in English. Gay marriage in M�xico City
You are worth so much more than this demeaning way out of debt. The Sun
Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient.
Before anybody complains that all this is very sexist and demeaning - I entirely agree.
Neither demeaning themselves to meet low tastes, nor overbearing in their presentation, they fit in perfectly with their requirement as a typical TV presenter.
They are demeaning themselves and making themselves unsuccessful.
They think that gearing a campaign towards maximum effective coverage is demeaning.
Demeaning, degrading, bigoted, and prejudiced ideas and behaviours are fought every day around the world.
Steinbrenner, who after all these years still doesn't appear to realize he's one of the luckiest men on the face of the earth, seems to relish in demeaning the efforts and accomplishments of his staff. USATODAY.com - Relax, Joe, you don't need this
Though she had been invited in 1915 to join the mathematics department of the University of Göttingen, the philosophical department objected to a woman in the position of privatdozent on the grounds that it would be demeaning for men to be lectured by her. “Honorary men” « Gin&Comment
The challenge comes because these magazines, with their demeaning cover images, are virtually the only material sold in grocery lines and drug stores. Valerie Tarico: Worshipping the Written Word
The only course left to us, is to do the impossible - to abandon the paradigm of capitalism that has defined our cultural, political and economic life for the past 250 years, and whose supremacy has led inexorably to the despoilation of our planet and demeaning of human existence. Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin: Our Oil Reserves Are Depleted; It's Time for Utopia
And as a result, members of the royal family had been put in some demeaning positions.
She spoke of people doing repetitive and demeaning work.
They were incredibly sarcastic and mocking, and their general treatment of you was so demeaning.
In the USA peon is a demeaning term, but not in Mexico. House Progress
This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse, the protesters complain.
Don't think I am demeaning his achievement by saying it comes from not getting bored.
I know some pretty normal woman who aren't hairy legged man-haters who find this ad pretty damn demeaning.
He found it demeaning to work for his former employee.
I have heard the shouted threats and demands and have witnessed some of the insulting, demeaning ways staff are treated.
TV Guide Magazine: Feminists would likely view Carly's overt bitchery as demeaning and self-defeating — hardly the image of an empowered woman Discuss! General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down
When judicial matters are one of the principal foci of borough and national records, we unavoidably receive an impression, not so much exaggerated as unbalanced, of the misdemeaning or felonious conduct of townsmen.
They think that gearing a campaign towards maximum effective coverage is demeaning.
Worst of all is his demeaning treatment of my grandmother.
Yet they lead a tough existence, working very hard, barely eking out a living under frequently demeaning circumstances.
Other than demeaning me for napping in the laundry room it was our only conversation.
Let us strive for accuracy in demeaning each other needlessly. Like You, Sarah Palin Loves Moose Hunting
They take an idea, bowdlerize it, blow it up, make it infantile and spend $100 million to give people a brief escape from their boring and often demeaning lives at work. What Would Fox’s Alan Moore-Approved ‘Watchmen’ Look Like?
One example is in isolating a person or making him do demeaning tasks well beneath his abilities.
They are demeaning the quality of public discourse, and setting an appalling example to young people. Times, Sunday Times
The word was used twice in a demeaning manner.
They were not only demeaning their own masculine code of honor, but that of others.
Yoan Valat/European Pressphoto Agency Activists dressed in burqas on Jan. 26, 2010, in an ironic show of support for the ban on full-faced veils, which they say are demeaning to women. Veil Ban Takes Effect in France
More than 500 hospital doctors have launched a scathing attack on a proposed new contract for consultants, condemning it as ‘demeaning and unprofessional’.
In today's Herald Sun, Gordon Ramsey claims the real reason he apologised about insulting and demeaning remarks he made towards Channel 9's Tracy Grimshaw, was that he received a 'bollocking' from his mum on the phone. At My Table
The Refugee Council gave a guarded welcome to the proposals, with particular support for the ending of the ‘demeaning’ voucher system.
You are worth so much more than this demeaning way out of debt. The Sun
It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience.
Because as demeaning as you might consider such work, there's a big-bucks opportunity in becoming a junkman. Dan Dorfman: The Junkman Cometh
And perhaps, pornography is the perfect analogy — titillating, unrealistic, demeaning, exploitative, a poor substitute for the real thing, but alluring and potentially habit-forming. Waiting for Inglourious Basterds « The Blog at 16th and Q
Almost every reference to them employs demeaning and derogatory stereotypes.
The compensation has provoked claims of misusing public funds and demeaning the value of a disabled person's life. Times, Sunday Times
They consider these a distorted and demeaning portrayal of their own tribal ancestors.
Discovering the selfish and demeaning way in which many of them have conducted themselves has undermined that expectation.
A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.
It's rough and demanding and I feel it would be undignified and demeaning for the fair sex to be taking part in such a spectacle.
Instead of leading the life of an adventurer king, Herc is forced to perform 12 degrading and demeaning labors.
We do not live in an ideal world, and to make moral judgments about the behaviour of others is demeaning.
No, they should be worried that so many young girls are convinced, from an early age, that homemaking is demeaning and unmeaningful, and that mothers at home are second-rate. Archive 2008-07-01
Yes, the process will be overly long, demeaning, and beneath our status as both the hyperpower and the injured party.
But you abused, debased and threatened that woman, threatening her and demeaning her.
The term symbol is so demeaning ... it conjures up images of strange fruit in trees as a SYMBOL of what white southerns would do to black males. Hillary Supporter Andrew Cuomo On Her NH Win: "You Can't Shuck And Jive" w/Press Corps
The comment is irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle.
The editor rejects as ‘drivel’ any suggestion that his paper may be demeaning women.
A demeaning booking in a burlesque theater gives Louise the chance to emerge from Momma's shadow and become cafe society's favorite ecdysiast.
Any attempt to dodge this is professionally demeaning and destructive of a trustful caring relationship with the client.
Using the term "bitch" other than its biological meaning is demeaning to women in general. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Brown condemns, with reason, men demeaning women through the ages by their patriarchal ideology.
The Commission for Racial Equality among others said the black makeup was demeaning to black people.
The comment is irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle.
Like thousands of others during this time, Tucker moved from one low-paid demeaning job to another in order to survive.
The small private sector, already reeling under horrible and demeaning regulatory control, sustained socialism for a while.
I refuse to do demeaning work.
The outraged minister found the offer a demeaning Catch - 22.
I support you for the comments you made, and am glad you haven't retracted your views on the sickly sentimentality which is demeaning and undermining the true Britishness of our country.
It is demeaning to be wholly dependent on others, and unfair that temporary disability is penalised.
You have taught me to forget myself by demeaning yourself to be free to a poor servant.
We're generally taught that housework is a menial, even demeaning task.
They had to clean, haul trash, launder, cook, shine shoes, and porter, and take the meanest wages for harsh, demeaning work.
He has called for a public ban of veils such as the burqa or niqab, which he describes as demeaning to women, in a legal gamble given constitutional guarantees on freedom of religion. Analysis
Samatar has gone through four secondary searches, which he described as demeaning and humiliating. News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio
Yet it ends up demeaning through cliché the very culture it means to showcase. Times, Sunday Times
He found it demeaning to work for his former employee.
The book is surely demeaning, and for the Germans the main character conjures up a familiar and deprecatory stereotype.
In more modern times, thanks to Betty Friedan and her followers, housecleaning is deemed total drudgery and demeaning work -- something that evidently should be relegated to the untouchable class of India. January Organizing and Housecleaning
He would have felt it demeaning to condemn this world utterly without first paying a visit to the vicinity of its ruler.
A demeaning booking in a burlesque theater gives Louise the chance to emerge from Momma's shadow and become cafe society's favorite ecdysiast.
I remember an evening in the early 1940s when we were gathered around the radio listening to one of those wartime propaganda programs, and the announcer caricatured the Japanese in demeaning terms. The Good Fight
You know it is amazing the job the libertards have done in demeaning and demonizing Palin. Fey likely to revive Palin impersonation
Saying that men are more likely to be violent criminals, rapists, or sexists would be 'derogatory or demeaning', and thus sexual harassment.
(April 24) -- A French driver has been fined by police for wearing the niqab -- a full face veil with an open slit for the eyes -- in the latest row over President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal to ban Muslim veils he calls demeaning to women. Top Stories From AOL News
To object to a proper historical accounting of awesome crimes is a demeaning and destructive stance. Times, Sunday Times
This contents and the demeaning language used in this article and the one by Dennis Ross are insulting not only to the present Iranian leadership, but also to the majority of Iranians including those who strongly oppose the Iranian administration such as the ormer Foreign Minister under Shah, Mr. Ardeshir Zahedi. Iran’s Bomb - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
I am not in any way demeaning our brave men folk but they do generally get more coverage than us ladies.
Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt?
I wish he would stop demeaning the provincial system in his writings.
The ministers are accused of demeaning themselves - their male counterparts would never agree to such a photo-shoot.
Donating blood was an example of a social institution that embodied non-selfish actions by individuals without demeaning the recipient.
To me, it sounds demeaning and unserious. Times, Sunday Times
Clearly, disloyalty is not an attribute of Gonzales, who has shown himself willing to perform virtually any task for his “Godfather,” no matter how dishonest or demeaning. Matthew Yglesias » Fredo
It had the danger of demeaning the known donor and in some cases he might have an important role. Times, Sunday Times
In the Virgin of the French Middle Ages he found the ideal that allowed him to transform his ungratified love into worship and to create a role for himself that was less demeaning than “tame cat.” The Five of Hearts
He found it demeaning to work for his former employee.
Do the cameras and reporters only see, or want to portray, the demeaning of America?
They claimed the poster was ‘indecent, sexually suggestive and demeaning to men’.
Burro is a demeaning name . Technically , it's called a wild ass.
Lessons From The Who: How To Work With Folks You Don't Like | MainStreet No Jerks Allowed: How and Why GCs Can Stop Angry, Rude and Demeaning Workplace Behavior Come difendersi dal capo aguzzino arriva il manuale antimobbing - cronaca - Repubblica. it AP Story: Hit back at the office bullies, screamers and demeaners Bob Sutton
The homeless are treated as criminals who must be forced into the city's dangerous and demeaning shelter system.
In practical fact, much work is repetitive, tedious, painfully fatiguing, mentally boring or socially demeaning.
There’s a familiar body of theory that holds porn is valued and consumed precisely because of its unreality — hence, absurdly proportioned women engaging in frenzied, decontextualized copulation with strangers, in scenarios that run the gamut from merely demeaning and objectifying to full-blown grand guignol. The Market for Penetration
Trust me, these people do not stay in demeaning poverty for very long. "Concentrated Poverty" Declines, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
They're all terribly cultured, and half of them Observer readers, and very nice but won't give you their names because that's demeaning, and I should feel sorry for their pensions/euro gamble but, hey-ho! Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
You may be right to say it is 'pejorative, denigrative and demeaning'. The Sun
With just 50 rooms and a team of bright young fixers (‘butler ‘is considered demeaning), this is a genuine boutique hotel.
They are going to introduce fair benefits for asylum seekers to replace what they call the demeaning voucher system.
It was the most demeaning, confidence-sapping job I have ever had.
I hope Burger King in Hungary do not produce any more of their so called idiosyncratic posters demeaning Scotland... To be a Scotsman
Their interrogation was demeaning and humiliating, probing the most intimate details of my personal and family life.
However, such degrading and demeaning views of Lee's performance certainly do not do him justice.
She says ambitious celebrities who appear topless or in bikinis in steamy photo shoots are ‘disgusting’ and are demeaning themselves.
Of course, any Supreme Court Justice guilty of such demeaning action today would become the center of a national firestorm.
It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience.

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