Demeaning vs. Degrading — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Demeaning and Degrading
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Demeaning
To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner
Demeaned themselves well in class.
Degrading
Tending or intended to degrade
"There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood" (W. Somerset Maugham).
Demeaning
To lower in status or character; degrade or humble
Professionals who feel demeaned by unskilled work.
Degrading
Present participle of degrade
Demeaning
Present participle of demean
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Degrading
Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.
Retrieving my dropped possessions from the mud was a degrading experience.
Demeaning
Degrading; that degrades
Degrading
An act or process of degradation.
Demeaning
Causing awareness of your shortcomings;
Golf is a humbling game
Degrading
Causing humiliation or degradation; as, a degrading surrender.
Degrading
Harmful to the mind or morals;
Corrupt judges and their corrupting influence
The vicious and degrading cult of violence
Degrading
Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
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