demean

Example Sentences

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“We are innately biased against outsiders,” writes David Livingstone Smith in his book “Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.”

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Demean is often used reproachfully because of its supposed relation to mean.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

Demean yourselves so that all who have to do with you may love your conversation, so as to desire after your way of life. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander

Thy humble mien is fitting, girl, but I Am modest, and, thus far, will graciously Demean myself.

From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster

Demean, Degrade The word demean is often incorrectly used in the sense of degrade, lower.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks