All 8 Uses of
degrade
in
Middlemarch
- It is degrading.†
Chpt 1 *
- …dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion.†
Chpt 2
- And on Lydgate's enthusiasm there was constantly pressing not a simple weight of sorrow, but the biting presence of a petty degrading care, such as casts the blight of irony over all higher effort.†
Chpt 6
- But he was now a prey to that worst irritation which arises not simply from annoyances, but from the second consciousness underlying those annoyances, of wasted energy and a degrading preoccupation, which was the reverse of all his former purposes.†
Chpt 7
- And as to advertising the house, I think it would be perfectly degrading to you.†
Chpt 7
- That the hateful man had come ill to Stone Court, and that her husband had chosen to remain there and watch over him, she allowed to be explained by the fact that Raffles had been employed and aided in earlier-days, and that this made a tie of benevolence towards him in his degraded helplessness; and she had been since then innocently cheered by her husband's more hopeful speech about his own health and ability to continue his attention to business.†
Chpt 8
- I must not at least sink into the degradation of being pensioned for work that I never achieved.†
Chpt 8
- We are indebted to that for seeing a woman like Dorothea degrading herself by marrying him.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity