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1. Causing awareness of your shortcomings
   "golf is a demeaning game"
   - humbling, humiliating, mortifying

1. Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
   "She tends to demean younger women colleagues"
   - take down, degrade, disgrace, put down

See also: demeaningly, undignified

Type of: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify

Encyclopedia: Demeaning