All 5 Uses of
degrade
in
Catch-22
- Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition.
Chpt 6 *degrading = reducing in human dignity
- Major Major had bought the dark glasses and false mustache in Rome in a final, futile attempt to save himself from the swampy degradation into which he was steadily sinking.
Chpt 9degradation = reduction of human dignity
- It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university.
Chpt 19degrading = reducing in dignity
- You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated or deceived.
Chpt 27degraded = reduced in human dignity
- We haven't got a stitch of clothing, and it's going to be very degrading and embarrassing for the person who has to go downstairs through the lobby to get some.
Chpt 33degrading = reducing in human dignity
Definitions:
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(1)
(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) to humiliate or treat with disrespect
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(2)
(degrade as in: degraded the quality) to decrease the quality or value of something