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demeaning

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verb (1)

present participle of demean
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demeaning

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verb (2)

present participle of demean

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of demeaning
Adjective
No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood. David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025 Trump tried to claim that media reports about his administration’s early conclusions were somehow demeaning attacks on the performance of our military. Chris Brennan, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Verb
Like me, Tommy would have looked to the culture around him to learn the language of demeaning women. Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025 And Max will not stop demeaning him. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for demeaning
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demeaning
Adjective
  • To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Perkins said the drink bore the insulting message.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Charles Rolsky, executive director and senior research scientist at the Shaw Institute, a nonprofit focusing on the links between environmental and human health, says that many studies, including his own, suggest PVA can pass through wastewater treatment without completely degrading.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The mission emphasized that detaining adolescents under such conditions amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the Young Republican National Federation called for the immediate resignations of leaders in the organization exposed in a Politico story to have sent racist, antisemitic and other derogatory text messages to one another in a private chat.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Kansas Young Republicans organization was deactivated on Tuesday following an investigation by Politico into a trove of racist and derogatory messages exchanged in a group chat between young GOP members in four states.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond removing banners, pop-ups, and videos that automatically play, AdGuard also protects against phishing attempts and malicious ads that can compromise your security.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And there would be lots of soldiers around, either Army or National Guard, and the people who were civilians would be young people, very disparaging about the military.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The 2023 Economic Report Of The President published in March of 2023 was relatively disparaging of cryptoassets and DLTs.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • As Cal, Nate's abusive father, Grey's Anatomy alum Eric Dane emerged as one of the strangest and most striking characters on Euphoria.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • At one point during the hearing, Richards pleaded for a tissue and began crying while recalling a particularly abusive event in May.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The intensity of Irish expressions of solidarity in 2024 caused one pro-Israel commentator, Ben Cohen, to coin the term Paddystinian as a derisive epithet to counter the narrative, conflating the pejorative stereotype of the drunken Paddy with Palestine.
    Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, locals use a different (and pejorative) term for the other versions: arroz con cosas, or rice with things.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Neither party admitted to liability and each agreed to refrain from making disparaging, negative or uncomplimentary statements about the other, the document said.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2022
  • Though the pollen gunk will pass, he's concerned by a contingent of Twitter trolls who've shared uncomplimentary reviews of his recent North American tour.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022

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“Demeaning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demeaning. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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