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demoted

adjective as in disgraced

adjective as in reduced

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Those that dared to complain were punished with bad shifts, demoted, or even fired.

He was demoted at the Mercury News, and left the paper in 1997.

Mendoza, who had recently been demoted to Vice Minster of Justice, resolved to go in and get Escobar on his own.

Here was this anti-war holiday demoted to treacly sentimentality.

Not surprisingly, Zakir flatly refused to comply with the order that demoted him to commander of Kandahar Province.

No general reversal is implied whereby all the late comers shall be advanced and all the early workers demoted.

"I'm demoted," Chet told the round-eyed man who stared unbelievingly at the vacant place on Chet's blouse.

As soon as the guns began to rumble, a nervous second lieutenant edged toward the demoted private.

They were actually demoted in grade so that these motions do not cover such circumstances.

As for Pappagourdas he found himself demoted to the position of a "yes man."

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to demoted, such as: humiliated, defrocked, degraded, discharged, dishonored, and mocked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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