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Definition of Demeaning
1. Adjective. Causing awareness of your shortcomings. "Golf is a humbling game"
Definition of Demeaning
1. Verb. (present participle of demean) ¹
2. Adjective. degrading; that degrades ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demeaning
1. demean [v] - See also: demean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demeaning
Literary usage of Demeaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"showed was admirable, not being elated with honors, and demeaning himself tranquilly
and sedately in adversity ; holding the opinion that he ought to offer ..."
2. Saracinesca by Francis Marion Crawford (1887)
"... he is capable of so demeaning his manhood as to excite interest in his weaknesses
rather than that he should cease to be the object of any interest ..."
3. Report of the Missouri Task Force on Gender and Justice (1994)
"demeaning CONDUCT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT The Task Force received a small, but
still disturbing, number of reports of inappropriate and demeaning conduct ..."
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