Adjective: demeaning di'mee-ning
- Causing awareness of your shortcomings
"golf is a demeaning game";
- humbling, humiliating, mortifying
- Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
"She tends to demean younger women colleagues";
- take down, degrade, disgrace, put down
- [archaic] Conduct or behave oneself in a particular manner
"She demeaned herself with dignity"
See also: put, undignified
Type of: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify
Encyclopedia: Demeaning