adjective. ['dɪˈmiːnɪŋ'] causing awareness of your shortcomings.
1. Verb, gerund or present participle Ensure the jokes are light and not offensive or demeaning to anyone.
1. If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more? - Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God