All 5 Uses of
degrade
in
Oliver Twist
- But, the measure of his degradation was not yet full.†
Chpt 37 *
- He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.†
Chpt 37
- The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,—even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone connected her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.†
Chpt 40
- I would have spared you the degradation, but we must hear them from your own lips before we part, and you know why.'†
Chpt 51
- Mr. Bumble has been heard to say, that in this reverse and degradation, he has not even spirits to be thankful for being separated from his wife.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity