adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
treatment
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A study by Harriet and Sarah Harman, for example, documents appalling and degrading treatment of elderly people in private homes.
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Relatives of the Guildford 4 and Birmingham 6 described the brutal and systematically degrading treatment the prisoners receive in jail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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degrading racial comments
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Many of the remarks were degrading to women and minorities.
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These poor people live in the most degrading conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A study by Harriet and Sarah Harman, for example, documents appalling and degrading treatment of elderly people in private homes.
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But the women continue to suffer a degrading subjugation.
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Claiming benefit can often be a degrading experience and it would appear that this is the effect desired.
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I went to the medical centre and there a male doctor did a very degrading examination of my body.
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In particular those articles of the statute survive which forbid cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment.
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It was a degrading situation for Tom and would be a humiliation if he were passed over.
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They had to deal with more degrading things in their lives.
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Trampling of vegetation is one of the most widespread environmentally degrading repercussions of recreation and can also lead to excessive soil erosion.