degrading

He also claimed the conditions in a US prison would be "inhuman and degrading" for him because of his health conditions, including type 2 diabetes and asthma.

Though the stunt is nominally aimed at exposing and ending degrading matchmaking practices, what Nastia really yearns for is her missing parent’s attention.

The mother added: "I'll write to the governor and then the guard will say really degrading things to him like 'are you going to keep writing to your mummy?'"

The second part of the trilogy, and the longest-running of the three performances, “Hide and Hide” zooms forward to 1980 into a coarse and degrading City of Angels.

"It is every day that we get abuse. There's swearing, shouting, I've been spat at. It does feel degrading, especially when this is an industry that you come into to help people."