demeaning
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I have bounced and bounced and bounced until I got a repetitive stress injury demeaningly known as mother’s thumb, which sounds like something the three witches in “Macbeth” would have used in potions.
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022
It's a film which is so demeaningly bad, so utterly without merit, that there is a kind of purity in its awfulness.
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2013
Perhaps most significant, the U.S. visitors tended to find the entire Swedish work system far too regimented and, though benevolent, demeaningly paternalistic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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