demean

"And just what would it take to make them feel less demeaned?"

But all the success has demeaned me in a way.

Michael's response is to demean him in front of everybody.

She might well have been available, but making a show of that demeaned her.

I had not meant to demean him or his people.

And he had to demean himself, back away from the fight, because he's little.

We will try to do it in a way not to demean the Senate.

I demean myself by talking to a race that could make such an offer.

It would therefore have demeaned us not to come up with something.

His buildings were demeaned as too nice to look at.

Many people in the industry feel the show has often demeaned their craft.

Why should she demean herself in her own eyes by lying.

He felt that to do so would demean the emperor.

I often wondered how she came to demean herself in that way.

That may be true, but it ought not demean their work.

They're quality horses, I'm not trying to demean them by any means.

She wouldn't demean herself by making an issue of it.

But this was much more meaningful to her than those, and she'd not let him demean it.

Such thoughts were necessary at this moment but she felt them demean her.

So the bad guys flourish and the entire department is demeaned.

Critics say the business demeans and takes advantage of poor women.

Two or three people, your husband among them, understand the full significance of this business, but the others only demean it.

We accept back without penalty a president who demeaned himself and us.

"For one reason or another, you seem to have a need to demean me whenever we meet," he said.

She felt it demeaned her work and ability as an architect.