Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.
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Examples
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The public forum in which I was able to witness this young black woman's self-degradation was simply appalling.
Kalia N. Baker: The Scholar and the Stripper Kalia N. Baker 2011
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Be skeptical of "memoirs" that glamorize booze, drugs, self-degradation and risk-taking by turning them into "art."
David Leibow: Can You Catch Cutting and Burning from Your Friends? David Leibow 2010
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The public forum in which I was able to witness this young black woman's self-degradation was simply appalling.
Kalia N. Baker: The Scholar and the Stripper Kalia N. Baker 2011
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Was she praying for better business that night, or was she praying for the day when she can finally bide farewell to this form of self-degradation?
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Was she praying for better business that night, or was she praying for the day when she can finally bide farewell to this form of self-degradation?
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With this victory, Heras has officially crossed the line that separates sandbagging from self-degradation, and I could not help feeling sorry for runner-up Michael Hutchinson, who felt "gutted:"
In the Fold: Small Bikes and Fancy Pants BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Or did it reach South Park levels of self-degradation?
Good grief. Now Giacomo Vigna is threatening to sue me! - Ezra Levant 2008
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Or did it reach South Park levels of self-degradation?
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I am prepared to believe that Lib Dem activists as well as their MPs are into kinky acts of self-degradation which will end in electoral humiliation - viz voting for the sanctimonious old hypocrite the Reverend Mrs Hughes.
Hughes Sorry Now? Simon Shows Signs of Panic at Huhne Advance 2006
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Of course the network never knew to what depths of self-degradation I had descended for that interview, or how my status as a queer national was forever tarnished.
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