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Example sentences for "demeaning"

Lexicographically close words:
demaunde; demaunded; deme; demean; demeaned; demeanor; demeanour; demed; demen; demene
  1. The following day they were shown up in the newspapers by an anti-"Mormon" writer, who expressed his surprise at their demeaning themselves by "interfering with the delusions of Mormonism.

  2. All around, from one to three miles distant, are loftier summits, consisting of irregular, broken ridges, varying from fifty to two hundred feet above the buildings of the city.

  3. One wonders at men calling themselves gentlemen demeaning themselves by such practices.

  4. In the areas of Federal responsibility, we have made historic progress in eliminating from among our people demeaning practices based on race or color.

  5. Just as we ended drive-through deliveries of babies last year, we must now end the dangerous and demeaning practice of forcing women home from the hospital only hours after a mastectomy.

  6. Or how could such a one as she manage to resist even so loathsome and demeaning a danger as the attack of a mere pack of scavenger dogs, with their many snapping jaws?

  7. Isis that he ordered a decree to be passed in council by which men of rank were permitted to sing at the opera, and receive a salary for so doing, without demeaning themselves.

  8. And that "every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves quietly and as good citizens of the State, shall be equally under the protection of the law.

  9. Sweden, discovered only too late that he was demeaning himself from avarice and not from necessity.

  10. The first sound of her voice had fixed Eckhardt's attention, not alone for its exquisite purity and sweetness, but the strange, mysterious air which hovered round her, despite her demeaning attire.

  11. He had recognized the Roman baron despite his demeaning attire.

  12. Who was the Sicilian dancer, whose manners and golden language belied her demeaning attire, whose strange eyes had penetrated into the darkness of his soul, whose voice had thrilled him with the echoes of one long silent and forever?

  13. In all the vicissitudes of public affairs, the constancy he showed was admirable, not being elated with honors, and demeaning himself sedately in adversity.

  14. If it should be so that she had given him cause of anger, how could she make peace with him without demeaning herself?

  15. He thought that he was demeaning himself by bowing down to members of Congress and State wire-pullers; but he was driven to it by his professional rage for promotion, and still more urgently by the necessity of increasing his income.

  16. The niece of Michele Pignaver is incapable of demeaning herself with a mountebank, sir!


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demeaning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cheap; common; critical; degrading; demeaning; deplorable; derogatory; disadvantaged; disgraceful; gutter; humble; humiliating; inferior; junior; less; lesser; lour; low; lower; lowly; menial; minor; modest; ordinary; outrageous; pitiful; sad; scandalous; secondary; servile; shabby; shameful; shocking; sorry; sub; subaltern; subject; subordinate; subservient; unbecoming; vulgar