degrading

Speech parts

1. degrading - Noun

2. degrading - Adjective

3. degrading - Verb

5. degrading - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Degrade

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

debasing corrupting low base unbecoming dirtying mean decay failing damaging degradation lowering degraded degrade abusive
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Antonyms

august good great noble BIG acceptable
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Phrases with the word

rna degrading enzyme fibrin-degrading enzyme

Examples

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. Elihu Root

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity. George Orwell

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. Oscar Wilde

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. Oscar Wilde

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. Charlotte Gainsbourg

Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making; or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers. William Morris

Close letter words and terms

degradedness degradement degrader degradingly degradingness degradome