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adv. - In a humiliating manner.

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Usage examples (16)
  • She told Rosa Monckton she found his conspicuous consumption embarrassing, but that did not prevent her from making herself demeaningly complicit.
  • Welcome to New York, he said to himself as the stream of detraining passengers dumped him impersonally, indignantly, demeaningly, on the concrete platform.
  • The truth is that Obama is expected to play a certain role: strong, angry, overbearing, and every one of her statements is demeaningly parsed in that light.
  • I do get angry when people lie about Clinton, misrepresent her record and statements, write demeaningly on her acts, call her "Hitlery," refer to her as "GOP-lite"
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