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单词 demean
释义
demean
verb[T]
uk
/dɪˈmiːn/us
/dɪˈmiːn/
tocausesomeone tobecomelessrespected:
羞辱，贬低
Theentirefamilywas demeaned by hisbehaviour.全家人都因他的行为而蒙羞。
I wouldn't demean myselfbyaskingmyparentsformoney.我决不会向父母要钱，我可丢不起那人。
Synonyms
degrade
disgrace
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
  • abase
  • abasement
  • be under a cloudidiom
  • bring/takesomeonedown a peg (or two)idiom
  • bruisesomeone'segoidiom
  • debase
  • deflate
  • dishonour
  • dishonourable
  • doghouse
  • exhibition
  • fall from graceidiom
  • ignominiously
  • ignominy
  • in the doghouseidiom
  • indignity
  • knocksomeoneofftheirpedestalidiom
  • stoop
  • stoop tosomething
  • undignified
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(Definition ofdemeanfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

demean| American Dictionary

demean
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈmin/
tocausetobecomelessrespected:
I wouldn’t demean myself byaskingmyfatherformoney.

demeaning

adjectiveus
/dɪˈmi·nɪŋ/
It was demeaning to beaskedtoleavebecause I wasdressedinformally.
(Definition ofdemeanfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdemean

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To be sure, artistic practice itself was not seen to be demeaning or unbecoming of a virtuoso.
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Low wages and full savings accounts aside, many ex-soldiers chose not to perform agricultural labor because they thought it demeaning.
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Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity.
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This served to reinforce the middle-class cultural ascendancy while demeaning the values of another culture.
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For example, wrongs of these sorts raise problems of definition, since not ever y intentionally demeaning act is a wrongful insult.
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Suffering and sickness, once known, can reduce anddemeana person and offer a depressing picture of one's own future.
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Race-conscious districting rests on an assumption about individuals that current moral understandings condemn as racially demeaning.
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Here the topic of the body is identified with a reactionary and oppressive discourse, one that individualises and demeans disabled people.
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They see this as indicating that the provision of support can be demeaning rather than protective of self-esteem.
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This involves taking advantage of their irrationality and so is demeaning in a way that reasonable and truthproduced terror is not.
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The difference between the two techniques lies in the weights that are used when variables are time demeaned.
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In fourteen years of plunder and repression, every significant political and civic institution had been demeaned or destroyed.
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Counters think it is okay to be ignorant, a position which ridgeologists find repugnant and even demeaning.
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In most clerical quarters, a demeaning internal exile under a hostile regime had not readily given rise to such utilitarian ecclesiological thinking.
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To apply for social assistance every month and to be repeatedly assessed as either ' worthy ' or ' not worthy ' is demeaning and difficult to accept.
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