All 6 Uses of
degrade
in
Great Expectations
- They fell into deeper shame and degradation—if there can be deeper—and ruin.†
Chpt 22
- What a degraded and vile sight it is!†
Chpt 28 *
- The great numbers on their backs, as if they were street doors; their coarse mangy ungainly outer surface, as if they were lower animals; their ironed legs, apologetically garlanded with pocket-handkerchiefs; and the way in which all present looked at them and kept from them; made them (as Herbert had said) a most disagreeable and degraded spectacle.†
Chpt 28
- To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.†
Chpt 30
- A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.†
Chpt 30
- I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,—I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity