compromising

adj, noun — 4 senses

compromising

adj

1

Willing or able to make a compromise.

2

That compromises somebody or something, especially someone's reputation; socially damaging.

3

Broadly Embarrassing; scandalous; suggestive; incriminating.

A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.

Derived terms: compromisingly, immunocompromising, noncompromising, uncompromising

compromising

noun

1

The act by which something is compromised.

There hath been much of treason, And much of violence and shame, To the old worship of that spring-life season; And compromisings of a sacred claim!1835, Leigh Hunt, The Monthly Repository, volume 9, page 793:

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