demean

Object

• task: Integration is paramount, avoiding demeaning tasks away from the majority of the group.
• woman: Speak out and challenge any discriminatory comments or jokes that demean women or make light of violence.
• job: Every heavy, dirty and demeaning job was ours.
• people: But his career, although making him rich, served only to reinforce stereotypes and demean black people.
• work: Doing good - we demean good works, don't we?
• way: Indeed, most labels associated with Special Education: can be used in demeaning ways.

Used with why or when

what: I don't want to demean what people achieved, but the money just rolled in.

Modifying Another Word

• so: If they fled from him at the Cross ( and if they didnt why would they make up a detail so demeaning?
• only: Bob Geldof himself has so clearly persisted that any temporary entanglement with the Living Dead can ultimately only demean him.
• not: How are we to generate work that does not demean the laborer?
• rather: I have no real problem with where the custom came from, but recently society has seemed to turn it into something rather demeaning.
• very: It would be very demeaning to many other talented directors to rate them like that.
• too: It was too demeaning for the god to do the same as his compere.

Preposition: in

way: My initial reply wasn't insulting or demeaning in any way.