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Meanings of debasing in English
Synonyms
Examples for "degrading"
Examples for "degrading"
1
Our anger is in general degrading, because it is in general impure.
2
In any circumstances, disrespecting that many voters risks degrading the political process.
3
It's a business model that encourages economic growth without degrading the environment.
4
Boat traffic stopped, fresh water receded and seawater seeped inland, degrading soils.
5
Here the prejudice against labor as degrading has very much given way.
1
Both are forms of falsehood, ways of reducing and demeaning our humanity.
2
The demeaning attack was unprovoked from someone he had considered a friend.
3
It is demeaning to Pompey even to allow us to picture them.
4
I find it really demeaning when I know how intelligent he is.
5
I was glad Antony did not go there; it would be demeaning.
Usage of debasing in English
1
They are debasing and defaming Islam, as President Widodo has often said.
2
Given opportunity elsewhere, these emigrants broke the debasing chains of farmland rental.
3
He strove to uplift them from the debasing habits of savage life.
4
What will you tell critics who accuse you of debasing the yen?
5
Such an employment is not debasing except among people of mean birth.
6
True manliness had bowed itself in debasing submission to the bestial.
7
Unjust, arbitrary and debasing are such ideas, and the laws based upon them.
8
The hope of money is even more debasing than the hoarding.
9
All which lowers the influence or the sacredness of this memory is debasing.
10
The deliberate ingenuity of the nastiness is its most debasing feature.
11
Humility is thought debasing; but Truth alone is honourable, and Humility is Truth.
12
Its ultra-low interest rates and money printing favoured gold by debasing the dollar.
13
Those who spread such doctrines are debasing the moral currency of English life.
14
There is nothing debasing in a smock-frock or a fustian jacket.
15
The myths, on the other hand, are what we call irrational and debasing.
16
Anyway, Blair's alleged remark is merely the most prominent in a debasing trend.
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Debasing through the time
Debasing across language varieties
United Kingdom
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