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DEGRADING

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degrading adjectiv

degradant, ruşinos, dezonorant, înjositor, umilitor.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It's degrading.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

There can be no doubt of your being a gentleman's daughter, and you must support your claim to that station by every thing within your own power, or there will be plenty of people who would take pleasure in degrading you.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You may even think it degrading—for I see now your habits have been what the world calls refined: your tastes lean to the ideal, and your society has at least been amongst the educated; but I consider that no service degrades which can better our race.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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