Usually means: Reducing the value of someone.
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  1. demeaning: Merriam-Webster
  2. demeaning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demeaning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. demeaning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Demeaning, demeaning: Wordnik
  6. demeaning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. demeaning: Wiktionary
  8. demeaning: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Demeaning, demeaning: Dictionary.com
  10. demeaning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Demeaning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Demeaning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. demeaning: Rhymezone
  14. Demeaning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. demeaning: FreeDictionary.org
  16. demeaning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. demeaning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. demeaning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. demeaning: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Degrading; that degrades.

Similar:
humiliating, humbling, mortifying, undignified, degradatory, denigratory, depreciating, derogatory, debased, degrative, more...

Opposite:
respectful, honorable, dignified

Types:
degrading, humiliating, embarrassing, nerve-wracking, more...

Phrases:
Dirty, dangerous and demeaning, dirty and demeaning, to ask something in a demeaning way, demeaning look, demeaning words, more...

Adjectives:
little, such, constant, manual, public, more, downright, physical, goddamned, general, worst



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Similar:
humiliating, humbling, mortifying, undignified, degradatory, denigratory, depreciating, derogatory, debased, degrative, more...

Opposite:
respectful, honorable, dignified

Types:
degrading, humiliating, embarrassing, nerve-wracking, more...

Phrases:
Dirty, dangerous and demeaning, dirty and demeaning, to ask something in a demeaning way, demeaning look, demeaning words, more...

Adjectives:
little, such, constant, manual, public, more, downright, physical, goddamned, general, worst



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