degrading
di gray ding
- v reduce the level of land, as by erosion
- v reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- v lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
- s harmful to the mind or morals
the vicious and degrading cult of violence - s used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
- South African students stage a demonstration in protest against a video recording of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white students.
- If interrogators choose to go on the attack, however, they may not "cross the line into humiliating and degrading treatment of the detainee.
- Chakrabarty first determined that the genes for oil-degrading enzymes were carried not on the microbes' chromosomes, where most genetic material is found, but elsewhere in the .