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Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
Dolores Huerta

Meaning of "demeaning" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMEANING

demeaning  [dɪˈmiːnɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMEANING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Demeaning is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEMEANING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dehumanization

Dehumanization or dehumanisation describes the denial of “humanness” to others and is theorized to take on two forms: animalistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely intergroup basis, and mechanistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely interpersonal basis. Dehumanization can occur discursively (e.g., idiomatic language that likens certain human beings to non-human animals, verbal abuse, erasing one's voice from discourse), symbolically (e.g., imagery), or physically (e.g., chattel slavery, physical abuse, refusing eye contact). Dehumanization often ignores the target's individuality (i.e., the creative and interesting aspects of his or her personality) and prevents one from showing compassion towards stigmatized groups. Dehumanization may be carried out by a social institution (such as a state, school, or family), interpersonally, or even within the self. Dehumanization can be unintentional, especially on the part of individuals, as with some types of de facto racism. State-organized dehumanization has historically been directed against perceived political, racial, ethnic, national, or religious minority groups.

Definition of demeaning in the English dictionary

The definition of demeaning in the dictionary is Something that is demeaning makes people have less respect for the person who is treated in that way, or who does that thing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMEANING


cleaning
ˈkliːnɪŋ
convening
kənˈviːnɪŋ
dry-cleaning
ˌdraɪˈkliːnɪŋ
greening
ˈɡriːnɪŋ
house-cleaning
ˈhaʊsˌkliːnɪŋ
intervening
ˌɪntəˈviːnɪŋ
leaning
ˈliːnɪŋ
learning
ˈlɜːnɪŋ
meaning
ˈmiːnɪŋ
morning
ˈmɔːnɪŋ
overweening
ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ
postweaning
ˌpəʊstˈwiːnɪŋ
preweaning
priːˈwiːnɪŋ
screening
ˈskriːnɪŋ
spring-cleaning
ˌsprɪŋˈkliːnɪŋ
sunscreening
ˈsʌnˌskriːnɪŋ
undermeaning
ˈʌndəˌmiːnɪŋ
unmeaning
ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ
weaning
ˈwiːnɪŋ
window-cleaning
ˈwɪndəʊˌkliːnɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMEANING

deme
demean
demeane
demeanor
demeanour
demeasnure
dement
dementate
demented
dementedly
dementedness
dementi
dementia
dementia paralytica
dementia praecox
demerara
demerara sugar
demeraran
demerge
demerger

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMEANING

aquaplaning
beginning
caning
cognitive meaning
dermaplaning
evening
grammatical meaning
groaning
lexical meaning
listening
loaning
moaning
sailplaning
self-cleaning
ultrasonic cleaning
unwaning
vacuum cleaning
waning
well-meaning
window cleaning

Synonyms and antonyms of demeaning in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEMEANING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «demeaning» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of demeaning

Translation of «demeaning» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMEANING

Find out the translation of demeaning to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of demeaning from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demeaning» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

降低身份的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

degradante
570 millions of speakers

English

demeaning
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचा दिखा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مهينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

унизительно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

degradante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dégradant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merendahkan diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erniedrigend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

屈辱的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비하하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyenyuwun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hạ thấp phẩm giá
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இது ஒழுக்கக்கேடான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Demeaning
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alçaltıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

degradante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poniżające
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

принизливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înjositoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποτιμητικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vernederend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förnedrande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nedverdigende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of demeaning

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMEANING»

The term «demeaning» is regularly used and occupies the 60.208 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMEANING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «demeaning» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «demeaning» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about demeaning

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7 QUOTES WITH «DEMEANING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word demeaning.
1
Quico Canseco
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
2
Gordon B. Hinckley
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
3
Dolores Huerta
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
4
Leonard Little
I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.
5
Alberto Manguel
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
6
Wally Schirra
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
7
David Walliams
I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMEANING»

Discover the use of demeaning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demeaning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Demeaning: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
2
All the livelong day: the meaning and demeaning of routine work
"Ranks with some of the best work ever done on labor in the United States."-The Village Voice.
Barbara Garson, 1994
3
Cengage Advantage Books: Public Speaking: Concepts and ...
ETHICS IN PRACTICE THE INTERPLAY OF LEGAL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS At a Congressional hearing on demeaning language in entertainment, committee members quizzed entertainment industry executives about the production ...
Clella Jaffe, 2009
4
The Moral Parameters of Good Talk: A Feminist Analysis
What about "chick," "fox," "filly," "doll," and so on? Trivializing language significantly overlaps demeaning language. Part of the explanation for this may be that to trivialize someone simply constitutes a weak form of demeaning or insulting them.
Maryann Ayim, 1997
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law
Some of Hellman's phrasings imply that discrimination is not tied to unequal treat- ment. For instance, she says that demeaning discrimination involves the relevant indi- vidual being treated as “not fully human.” While this may be demeaning, ...
Andrei Marmor, 2012
6
Exploitation and Demeaning Choices: Understanding the Long ...
I develop an account of what I call "Needs Exploitation," grounded in a specification of the duty of beneficence.
Jeremy Christopher Snyder, 2007
7
Powerful Phrases for Effective Customer Service: Over 700 ...
What. to. Do. When. the. Customer. Is. Demeaning. (to. You. Personally). It's never all right to demean or belittle someone, but you know it happens. Some people feel the need to put others down. It's happened to all of us at some point in our ...
RENÉE EVENSON, 2012
8
The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow ...
demeaning to be hired, based on the color of our skin. Such is the silliness of simplistic either-or inversions as remedies to complex problems. What is truly demeaning in this era of double-speak-no-evil is going on interviews and not getting ...
Julie Buckner Armstrong, Amy Schmidt, 2009
9
Born Free and Equal?: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the ...
treatment that is demeaning to the discriminatee, where an act or omission demeans someone if, and only if, the following two conditions are satisfied. First, the relevant individual is treated as “not fully human” or “not of equal moral worth, ” ...
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, 2014
10
News Interviews: A pragmalinguistic analysis
Some event or action associated with the interviewee might also be valued as demeaning by some part of the audience and thus threaten the interviewee's face . PTAs are even more serious, however, if the interviewee has to comment directly ...
Andreas H. Jucker, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMEANING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demeaning is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Flag always demeaning to black South Carolinians
But that flag at the Statehouse has been beyond demeaning, a taunting middle finger from the graves of those who would enslave us. «The Times and Democrat, Jul 15»
2
Hilary Clinton and Bill Clinton used ropes to string up the press …
... with a rope lasso at a campaign event last week, many saw it as a sign her relationship with the media had reached a new, demeaning low. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Redskins name going the way of the Confederate flag
Already, I can hear the cries of those who yearn for the good old days, when they could use all manner of insulting, demeaning slurs to refer to ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
4
I can't believe the USMNT lost to Honduras
It's summertime, this is just demeaning and uncalled for. He's mocking the co-creator of our nation's sunny season anthem. I just really hope ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»
5
Reform Jews 'stab Torah in the back' -- ultra-Orthodox lawmaker
The Anti-Defamation League criticized Azoulay's “outburst of demeaning and hateful comments,” while also welcoming Netanyahu's “swift ... «The Times of Israel, Jul 15»
6
Hospitality Workers Protest Donald Trump's Immigration Remarks
"No one who makes demeaning, ignorant comments about immigrants deserves to be president," Karen Kent, president of UNITE HERE Local ... «NBC Chicago, Jul 15»
7
Comic Box: 'Starve' is based on a horrifying version of a TV cooking …
Within a few pages Cruikshank fills in readers on every bit of depravity that society has embraced, with the most demeaning being the lack of ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
8
Paula Deen distances herself from posted 'I Love Lucy' photo
Posted responses to the Twitter photo included those who decried Bobby Deen's makeup as akin to the demeaning "blackface" depictions of ... «News Sentinel, Jul 15»
9
Phillies GM Amaro may have sealed his fate with clumsy comments …
So, what was the point of demeaning him? The end game could be that Amaro will trade Utley to a west-coast team once the player is healthy, ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
10
On Marriage Equality, Clarence Thomas Is Right About Dignity. So Is …
But he also spoke of “fulfilling,” “demeaning,” and “recognizing” dignity—all of which presume that the dignity in question is already present. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

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