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Princeton's WordNet

  1. demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifyingadjective

    causing awareness of your shortcomings

    "golf is a humbling game"

Wiktionary

  1. demeaningadjective

    degrading; that degrades

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  1. demeaning

    Demeaning refers to causing a severe loss in the dignity or respect for someone or something. It can involve actions, words, or behaviors that belittle, dishearten, or humiliate an individual or group, thus negatively affecting their self-esteem or self-worth.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Demeaning

    of Demean

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Demeaning in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Demeaning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Demeaning in a Sentence

  1. Jose Silva:

    They asked the family to edit the video, and that was like editing Vanessa's life. It was demeaning.

  2. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

    Black Americans, because of slavery, don't know what country in Africa they came from, and that's a very demeaning experience for a child.

  3. Mayor Bloomberg:

    The way you should get the guns out of the kids hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them, the way he feels about people is so demeaning. The policy may have been stop and frisk, but the philosophy was to castigate and denigrate people of color, and its a disgrace.

  4. Donald Trump:

    They can’t beat us at the voting booths so they’re trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you won, they’re trying to cheat you out of the leadership you won, with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us.

  5. Chelsea Clinton:

    Not just the hundreds, but now thousands of instances in schools across America, where children are citing the president as they’re demeaning a little girl, or they’re chanting ‘Build a wall’ in an attempt to demean and degrade brown children.

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