be degrading
Frequency: 8.015.5 per million words
Used to state that something causes a loss of self-respect.
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Examples (10)
- It is degrading to be treated like a child.
- The working conditions were degrading and unsafe.
- Such public criticism has always been degrading to the employees.
- Forcing them to wear those uniforms will be degrading.
- Is it degrading to ask for help?
- What they were forced to do was deeply degrading.
- Many people feel that such advertisements are degrading to women.
- If the process is degrading, people will not participate.
- The intention was not to be degrading, but it was perceived that way.
- No part of the initiation process should be degrading.