The phrase "degrade themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or behaviors that lower one's dignity or self-worth.
Example: "In an attempt to fit in, some individuals may choose to degrade themselves in front of others."
Alternatives: "lower their self-esteem" or "humiliate themselves."
He argued that humans have a duty to avoid maxims that harm or degrade themselves, including suicide, sexual degradation, and drunkenness.
All very well, but women degrade themselves with the pinkie-wiggle.
It does not need publicity about profanity-spewing fans who spit at women who refuse to degrade themselves.
Do stars degrade themselves when they take a role in trash, or does their very presence redeem the folly, turning up something that glitters amid the dross?
BUT the violence is only part of what makes the film hard to take; it isn't easy watching characters so blindly and eagerly degrade themselves.
Also, their predicament becomes terrible: some go as far as to commit suicide, one dies, all do things through which they profoundly degrade themselves.
Those that remain have now degraded themselves beyond recognition, like the New Yorker," Trump wrote, citing Carlson as the speaker.
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The presenter's harshest critics have accused him of using his faux-naif, shambling persona to trick subjects into humiliating or degrading themselves.
There was footage from The Word (a woman bathing in shit), Network 7 (celebs degrading themselves for airtime) and the all-but-forgotten The Living Soap, the obvious BB-precursor.
