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demean
1. Although, now, calling it a device seemed to demean its true nature; this was now an entity far beyond any AI in existence, on an unprecedented high evolutionary curve
2. I know you’d be prepared to demean yourself for such a cause
3. Vroom, the Native Commissioner, acted as interpreter, and through him the conditions of the treaty were given to the Ashantis; but it had to be again repeated by the royal linguist to Prempeh, who could not demean himself by listening to the stranger's voice
4. I do not mean to belittle or demean the work of God in any way, but we are discussing marketing and what better example can we have but from God Himself
5. Vera did her best to view more, simply to be able to demean my weakness—but she soon found excuses not to attend
6. It must have been a terribly humiliating experience for Alistair but it was my purposeful intention to demean him in front of his subordinates for his years of workplace abuse
7. When victims are dumped like trash it indicates that the killer is trying to demean the victims
8. Will it demean you to be a donkey?”
9. but I am not ready to demean myself just because a priest says I have to
10. What is truly immoral is to demean the death of a man compared to that of a woman
11. “My objectivity is not impugned by that incident, and you demean yourself for suggesting such improprieties
12. Feltus studied each of them with great care and attention, though he still paid the proper respect to the proceedings before him so as not to alienate or demean himself in any way that would reflect poorly upon his reputation
13. What I would like to know is why a beautiful and apparently intelligent girl like you would demean herself by becoming a prostitute
14. “They put her dead last in the procession? I’m not big on protocol matter but this is the surest way to insult and demean a head of state, especially one as powerful and influential as Laplante
15. forces that are congenial to the essentially divine character of the Self and those which offend and demean it
16. and demean the human Soul render the bonds of infatuation yet
17. NASA was there and to demean the efforts of NASA by
18. The elite tried to demean the work of the poor: as a way to feel better than them
19. Here Don Quixote joined them; and learning what passed, and how soon Sancho was to go to his government, he with the duke's permission took him by the hand, and retired to his room with him for the purpose of giving him advice as to how he was to demean himself in his office
20. “Are you sure this isn't one of his schemes to demean you once again?” she asked me
21. Humiliate, terrify, demean, diminish, bring to despair
22. Teach; do not demean
23. Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon
24. Pfuel only snorted contemptuously and turned away, to show that he would never demean himself by replying to such nonsense as he was now hearing
25. Susan and an attendant girl, whose inferior appearance informed Fanny, to her great surprise, that she had previously seen the upper servant, brought in everything necessary for the meal; Susan looking, as she put the kettle on the fire and glanced at her sister, as if divided between the agreeable triumph of shewing her activity and usefulness, and the dread of being thought to demean herself by such an office
26. “Thank you for assuming that I would not demean myself with lies
27. I did not wish to demean myself by continuing our former flippant relations, and at the same time I felt that I had not yet reached the level of straight and simple relations with her
28. The difference in this respect between an individual and mankind in general lies in the fact that while the individual, in forming his conception of the significance and responsibilities of that new period of life upon which he is about to enter, may avail himself of the advice of his predecessors who have already passed that stage, mankind can have no such advantage, because it is advancing along an unbeaten track and there is no one of whom it can ask for the clue to the mystery of life, or how it shall demean itself under these unfamiliar conditions to which no nation has ever yet been subjected
29. Balashëv began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon
30. Liberty will have no longer charms for him; he will grow more and more restless, more and more amazed—let me but give him plenty of time, and he will demean himself in a way to prove his guilt as plainly as that twice two our four! Yes, he will keep hovering about me, describing circles, smaller and smaller, till at last— bang! He has flown into my clutches, and I have got him
31. To the President alone is given the power to receive Ministers and to treat with them, and as in the course of this duty he becomes personally interested in the deportment of foreign Ministers, if they demean themselves disrespectfully towards him, he is clothed with the power to break off intercourse with them at pleasure, and so far to suspend their ministerial functions