demean

Example Sentences

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I don’t mean to demean his abilities as a businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

"Germany objects to use of terms and comparison related to Nazi Germany that are historically, politically and morally wrong because they demean the victims and raise false implications," he said in a recent X post.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

From Amazon forcing workers to urinate in bottles to Walmart penalizing employees for taking sick days, employers everywhere use and abuse their authority in the workplace to humiliate, demean, and harass workers.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

It made it illegal to "write, send, or share any information through a computer, which is likely to ridicule, degrade, or demean another person, group of persons, a tribe, an ethnicity, a religion or gender".

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2024

I, on the other hand, held the opinion that to draw such a parallel tended to demean the 'dignity' of the likes of Mr Marshall.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro