It was the most degrading and demeaning sentence I'd ever heard in my whole life, one that could only have been pronounced on this dirty planet.

Among the many hardships of Soviet life, perhaps the most degrading is the constant search for decent food and the hours lost waiting in unruly lines to buy it.

Superior gastrointestinal absorption, absorption from the gastrointestinal tract after the most degrading without being excreted as urine.

These are rights, of course, that these offenders have taken away from their victims in the cruellest and most degrading manner possible.

It was "the deadliest occupation in the East, [and] the most degrading for human beings to pursue.

In "This Power," Ostriker considers the respect and attraction children feel towards their mothers, even in the most degrading and trying circumstances.

But as you might expect, death by cold is both the most degrading and the most honorable of deaths we know: degrading because our people were forced into it.

All too often do we read and see accounts of human beings being treated in a most degrading manner.

"That was the most degrading," he said.

As a result you can use the word democracy to sanction in his thought the most degrading (and also the least enjoyable) of all human feelings.