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Etymology

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degrading +‎ -ly

Adverb

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degradingly (comparative more degradingly, superlative most degradingly)

  1. In a degrading manner.
    • 1999, Sue Richardson, Reshaping the labour market, page 28:
      It is an offence to the dignity of workers to pay them degradingly low wages. What constitutes a degradingly low wage will, of course, be affected by the standards of the time; it is a relative as much as an absolute idea.