Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of
An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
contemptful
The act of one who sneers.