degrader

See also: dégrader

English

Etymology

degrade +‎ -er

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈɡɹeɪdə(ɹ)/

Noun

degrader (plural degraders)

One who, or that which, degrades.
- 2008 April 3, Ginia Bellafante, “Gladiators of the Dance in the Arena of Reality TV”, in New York Times‎:
  The end of the rainbow is Elizabeth Berkley, a former dancer who could exhume the corpse of Martha Graham and still go to her own grave known solely for “Showgirls,” that great degrader of the once simply disreputable profession of stripping.

Anagrams

regarded, regraded

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