Demean Sentence Examples

And she'd never demean herself to that man.

The mother-in-law would demean her, as a way to abase the young wife in the son's eyes.

Bob Geldof himself has so clearly persisted that any temporary entanglement with the Living Dead can ultimately only demean him.

Pfuel only snorted contemptuously and turned away, to show that he would never demean himself by replying to such nonsense as he was now hearing.

How are we to generate work that does not demean the laborer?

Toni maintains that her critiques of storylines in no way demean the great job the actors and writers do on the show.

If he had now resigned rather than demean himself by Icting against his conscience, it is by no means unlikely that he would have been recalled to power before many years were over.

As Gertrude Himmelfarb points out, postmodern multiculturalism has the pernicious effect to demean and dehumanize the people who are the subjects of history.