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degrading

adjective/dɪˈɡreɪdɪŋ/

B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Humiliating a person or diminishing their dignity to a serious degree.

Strip-searching the detainees in public was found to be degrading treatment.

Similar: humiliating

Topic: Human rights in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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