Definition of Degrading

1. Adjective. Harmful to the mind or morals. "The vicious and degrading cult of violence"

Exact synonyms: Corrupting
Similar to: Noxious

2. Adjective. Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor.
Exact synonyms: Debasing
Similar to: Dishonorable, Dishonourable

Definition of Degrading

1. Verb. (present participle of degrade) ¹

2. Adjective. that degrades ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Degrading

1. degrade [v] - See also: degrade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degrading

degradabilities
degradability
degradable
degradational
degradations
degradative
degrade
degraded
degraded wetland
degradedly
degradement
degrader
degraders
degrades
degrading (current term)
degradingly
degradomics
degradosome
degradosomes
degranulate
degranulated
degranulates
degranulating
degranulation
degranulations
degras
degrative
degravitating
degravitation

Literary usage of Degrading

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"... there is no evidence of the operation of the peculiar degrading force, to which 1 shall presently allude—certainly not to any very great extent—in ..."

2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT degrading? BY THE VERY BEV. ... Is THERE anything degrading in corporal punishment ? There is said to be a feeling that such is the ..."

3. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"Substituting judicious respect for a degrading hypocrisy. Positivism, which finds its application primarily and especially in public life, undertakes to ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... which the emperor gave to the familiar society of his friends, he could indulge his taste for pleasantry, without degrading the majesty of his rank. ..."

5. Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain by Edmund Burke (1791)
"... not the means of repelling their charges in any other than the degrading character of culprits. ..."

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