Word: demeaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only the peasants still doffed their caps to the Duke's grave and abolished those categories...I mean, you must surely have endured exhaustive, exhausting discussions about X (who "one could never demean by comparing to Chick Corea, Coltrane, McLaughlin, Gillespie," whoever--pick your villain) and his "progressive" jazz that's trail blazing so fast they use dynamite to clear out the way to new enlightenment...
...York State Supreme Court Judge John Scileppi has now denied her application because it would "demean the women's movement and expose it to unjustified ridicule" and would "have serious and undesirable repercussions, perhaps throughout the entire country." The precedent, he wrote, might well lead not only to such "inane" name changes as Manning to Peopling and Carmen to Carpersons, but even to words like mankind becoming personkind. Says Cooperman, who plans to appeal: "I'm all for that...
Karnow in reply says that Peretz never raised any issues of expenses with him and that Peretz is trying to demean him in the easiest way. "He's trying to drown the issues between us in that kind of trivia...his arguments on that subject merely reveal his pettiness," he says. Karnow also says he has repaid Peretz for everything he owed...
...will not demean the previous lecturers in this series by saying that we have saved the best for last," said Charles R. Ritcheson (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1947-48), cultural attache to the American Embassy in London...
...twentieth century most outings have involved little if any intentional violence. Cynics might argue that opponents want to leave this final game on good terms with one another because they will soon be meeting again in corporate board rooms and top-level government offices, but this does not demean the players' on-the-field composure...