Synonyms for demean
dɪˈminde·mean

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1. take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put downverb

   reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

   "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"

   Synonyms:
   unload, land, write down, repose, bring down, cheapen, dishonour, pull down, raze, drop off, disgrace, lower, discredit, take down, dismantle, get down, place down, shame, record, lay, tear down, degrade, let down, level, set down, put down, attaint, dishonor, drop, enter, discharge, destroy, rase, note

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1. List of paraphrases for "demean":

   degrade

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   The contributions that they( African Americans) have made have been so spectacular to our country, so to see the president demean a great leader like Elijah Cummings, shows his own insecurity and his own lack of understanding about what progress really is.

2. Via Nancy DAlesandro Pelosi:

   To see the president demean a great leader like Elijah Cummingsshows his own insecurity and his own lack of understanding about what progress really is.

3. Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance":

   I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself.

4. Harrison Fields:

   The bar isn’t very high for those on CNN. They usually aren’t interested in telling the truth, they are solely focused on their narrative, which, since Trump has been out of the White House, has been to continue to demean and damage his reputation.

5. Democrat Doug Jones:

   I don’t demean my fellow citizens but treat everyone with dignity and respect, roy Moore has spent his entire life to use whatever position he was in to create conflict and division in order to promote his personal agenda.