(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.
Snide
Definition:
(a.) Tricky; deceptive; contemptible; as, a snide lawyer; snide goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the often misogynistic climate that exists online, anything with the word women in the title can attract hostility ranging from the snide to the offensive, but Mayer said the worst abuse has come from Radio 4 fans.
(2) If you are so desperately concerned for your athletes and your team that you need to write snide, lazy things on the internet about Rio or Brazil to make yourself feel better; or if you feel angry or betrayed or frustrated by what’s about to happen in Rio because you genuinely believe the US would do a better job and be the perfect Olympic host, I suggest you channel some of that energy, or at the very least some funds, into the LA 2024 bid .
(3) England have not beaten their neighbours from across the Channel since 1974 and the slenderness of the scoreline, with the two side’s separated only by Eugénie Le Sommer’s first-half strike, disguises the superiority of a French side now clear favourites to top Group F. Granted Les Bleus could have had Camille Abily sent off for a snide elbow on Laura Bassett but by then victory was all but secured.
(4) She said the bullying by the paper was renewed with vigour when 20 years later she said she still objected to Page 3 with half-naked women calling at her home and making snide comments about her body.
(5) These events take place as we enter the last stretch in the London mayoral race , where a Labour politician has been subjected to smears and snide toots on the dog-whistle to remind voters of his religion.
(6) Ian Flintoff Oxford • This election is becoming increasingly blurred as the facial expressions and gestures of the combatants become magnified under the unforgiving eye of the TV cameras and the spin doctors regurgitate the views of their representatives and add their own snide remarks.
(7) I knew I represented different people: stay-at-home mums, Muslims, the [British] Bangladeshi community ... [and] for each and every bit of me, someone has accepted me and said, ‘You have done a really good job for us; she seems like a good mum, she’s done well for Muslims, and the Bengalis are proud.” Though Bake Off’s viewers admired her not just for her technical skill but for her witty one-liners and infectiously expressive facial features, rightwing commentators did make some snide comments about political correctness being behind her success, with the Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell saying that the eliminated contestant Flora Shedden might have done better if she had made a “chocolate mosque”.
(8) Most of it is limited to publicly naming those workers, to ostracize them, and making snide comments.
(9) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
(10) We'll click 'share', we'll rofl, we'll offer snide remarks on Twitter, and emoji each other our amazement at the whole thing in endless combinations of cartoon faces.
(11) People who disagree with me often don’t merely say so – they lob personal attacks or make cruel and snide remarks.
(12) "It's snide, dirty and, I think, a sexist trick," he said.
(13) The government of Maximos,” he said in snide reference to the aides that have surrounded Tsipras in his prime ministerial office, “neither gave the power to the people nor work to the people.
(14) Although Rendell did not like the title often bestowed on her – queen of crime – calling it snide and sexist, she did not go along with the many reviewers, among them AN Wilson and PD James , who called her a great novelist.
(15) During his first two stints as president, the former KGB agent demonstrated his gift at G8 gatherings and other international get-togethers for sardonic repartee mixed with snide remarks about western hypocrisy and double-dealing.
(16) Frank Underwood is an absolutely classic villain, in fact he’s actually just one step away from Snidely Whiplash, but Birgitte Nyborg – I think that is a very interesting role because it shows all of the stresses between family life, political life, the compromises that have to be made.
(17) My kids I worry about more, with parents of other kids reading it and making snide comments.
(18) There has to be the equivalent of a drumroll when [1960s cartoon villain] Snidely Whiplash comes in because – God help us – we can't have complexity.
(19) Expect to see this play out in snide, deniable, but nonetheless bitter actions for months to come.
(20) Every day, blogs like Men Taking Up Too Much Space On The Train post clandestine pictures of commuters, under the snide and self-proclaimed mission of public shaming.