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degradingadjective intended to make a person or thing seem of little importance or valuemade degrading comments about his so-called friend behind his back belittling, contemptuous, decrying, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disdainful, disparaging, pejorative, scornful, slighting, uncomplimentary aspersing, calumnious, defamatory, insulting, libelous(or libellous), maligning, slandering, slanderous, vilifyingabusive, opprobrious, scurrilouscatty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, unkind, virulentcritical, denunciative, denunciatoryacrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentfulacrid, caustic, scathing, venomous commendatory, complimentary, laudative, laudatory admiring, adulatory, applauding, approving, friendly, positiveappreciative, respectfulkind, kindhearted, kindly, sympathetic, unmalicious, warm, warmhearted to bring to a lower grade or rankthe view that such a system degrades doctors to the status of medical employees who ultimately are not in charge of their patients' health care breaking, busting, demoting, disrating, downgrading, reducing canning, cashiering, dismissing, downsizing, firing, laying off, sackingabasing, debasing, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, lowering advancing, elevating, promoting, raising hiring to lower in character, dignity, or qualitydegrading the school's animal mascot with a silly costume abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, debasing, debauching, demeaning, demoralizing, depraving, deteriorating, lessening, perverting, poisoning, profaning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe players degraded themselves with their crude antics off the field abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing ca. 1540 |