adjective
: that degrades ; especially : that causes human character to become degraded or debased
moralists have often exposed the selfish pursuit of personal gain as a degrading motive in the business life — J.A.Hobson
war for the most part is degrading and hateful
the tendency of existentialists to deal with the degrading aspects of human nature
• de·grad·ing·ly adverb
• de·grad·ing·ness noun -es