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Definition of Degrading
1. Adjective. Harmful to the mind or morals. "The vicious and degrading cult of violence"
2. Adjective. Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor.
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
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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