demeaning

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English

Definitions

verb

To debase; to lower; to degrade.
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
To mortify.

verb

To manage; to conduct; to treat.
(now rare) To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.

verb

To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).

adjective

Degrading; that degrades

Related words

Synonyms

humiliating mortifying humbling undignified humiliated derogatory shameful disgraceful embarrassing offensive insulting degrading degraded abusive dismissive inhuman

Associated

stereotypes stereotypical caricature vulgar racist yankee jokes weakness induction tasks remarks

Rhymes

keening meaning preening careening screening leaning convening cleaning intervening peening

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