herabsetzend — meaning in English
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English meaning
- degrading adj Causing someone to feel humiliated or stripped of dignity.
- demeaning adjective Making someone feel humiliated or lowered in dignity.
- disparaging adjective Insulting or belittling; expressing a low opinion of someone or something.
- pejorative adj Showing that you think something or someone is bad; insulting.
- snide adjective Making sly, mocking, or belittling remarks, often disguised as harmless comments.
Senses
herabsetzend is used for these senses in English:
- degrading Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.
- demeaning Degrading; that degrades.
- deprecating In manner that deprecates; insulting; belittling.
- disparaging Insulting, ridiculing.
- pejorative Disparaging, belittling or derogatory. [from 1882]
- snide Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
- snide Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
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