(v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) Management; treatment.
(v. t.) Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
(n.) Demesne.
(n.) Resources; means.
Example Sentences:
(1) And in November, the US sixth circuit court of appeals ruled against these decisions , leaving Johnson and Campion in the same demeaning and inconvenient legal status they have faced since getting together.
(2) 9.41pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd The "demeaning euphemism for overweight" Matt Adams lines out to Adrian Gonzalez for the second out of the inning.
(3) "The culture of demeaning women in pop music is so ingrained as to become routine, from the way we are dealt with by management and labels, to the way we are presented to the public."
(4) Surprise backing There is one bright spot for José Mourinho , as Alex Ferguson appears to debunk one of the more demeaning vignettes of recent years.
(5) It would be unfair – daft, even, and demeaning to the winner – to suggest Murray threw the match away after coming back from 2-5 in the fifth set and failing to convert any of three break points that would have left him serving for the match.
(6) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
(7) I’m not surprised that conservatives are using degrading language or demeaning the movement.
(8) Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, accused Osborne of demeaning his office.
(9) We were very relieved and pleased, but the whole process was costly and demeaning.
(10) He is at least as tribal, jingoistic, and provincial as those he condemns for those human failings, as he constantly hails the nobility of his side while demeaning those Others.
(11) I felt it was demeaning for TB if GB was seen as the giant figure and he was Mr public services, Mr crisis management, Mr international tootling-along-behind.
(12) Trump approves of working with autocrats, at least, and would probably make fast friends with the galaxy’s less reputable leaders – especially those who share his interests, eg crimelord Jabba the Hutt, who lives in an ostentatious palace , loves parties , demeans women and feeds a literal Rancor .
(13) Little more than 50 years on, however, it is the setting for a chaotic and demeaning political battle that has even long-term parliament watchers shaking their heads in disbelief.
(14) The strategy backfired within hours because, with just a few sentences, Miliband gave a truly prime ministerial rebuttal: “Michael Fallon’s a decent man but today I think he has demeaned himself and he’s demeaned his office.
(15) Usually this is stuff I can ignore but don’t demean sufferers, don’t twist my words, back the fuck up bros.
(16) "I say to them, you will never ever appease the rightwing media and to try demeans you and our party."
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cameron accused of waffling by English Literature student Giles Fraser: ‘Cameron doesn’t have a higher vision than the price of the pound’ Oh, how the prime minister has demeaned the high calling of his office.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority originally ruled that the posters were demeaning and would not be permitted in the city's subways, but allowed them after the anti-Muslim group took the agency to court.
(19) Union representatives have insisted the project is simply meant to draw political attention to the increase in homelessness , and is in no way intended to demean or humiliate homeless people.
(20) The real answer behind this sorry tale could be that Trierweiler could not deal with the demeaning role of presidential PR prop and public property that the role of Premiere Dame, or any kind of political wife now involves.
Demesne
Definition:
(n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.