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demeaning

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Present participle of demean

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Out of the mouths of babes, as the saying goes, and such objectification seems quite the news to Harington, who says that it is demeaning "in the same way as it is for women".

Justine has come across a little better, merely scowling from time to time as if she knows the whole process is demeaning but necessary.

In the report published on Wednesday Acma found the station breached clause 6.1 of the code "which prohibits the broadcast of statements by identifiable persons without their consent" and clause 9.1 of the code, which prohibits treating people on air in a "highly demeaning or highly exploitative manner".

And a very drunk woman is worse than a very drunk man: "I hate to see anyone demeaning themselves with alcohol, but with a man you expect it, because a man's half beast, anyway".

When it comes to blatantly racist portrayals, the show's mockery of indigenous peoples in the Americas is profoundly demeaning.

However, they were "united" in opposition to the "healthy welfare card", which they believed would be "demeaning, invasive, unworkable and bureaucratic, creating an entire subclass of millions of people in the Australian community", read the statement.

When you're at a trade show full of middle-aged men and the majority of women on the premises have been hired to loll around in skimpy outfits, that, to me, is demeaning.

The governor is "seeking to increase his stature among national conservative Republicans by demeaning his gay and lesbian constituents back home in Massachusetts," says Marty Rouse, the campaign director for MassEquality, a gay-rights group.

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