demeaning

"And I don't say that in any demeaning sense because for white southerners, it's not easy to rid ourselves of all the prejudices that we have born over the centuries."

Bureaucrats have bristled at the term as misleading and demeaning.

Losing your job might be demeaning, but losing your integrity for the shot at a job is dehumanizing.

In practice, it led to some of the most demeaning tactics schools have ever deployed against their own students.

Especially when it became clear that the writers thought it made perfect sense to keep Carrie and Aidan’s children separate — so unbelievable, and demeaning to both characters.