debased
Example Sentences
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Whereas the European gothic, he concludes, was “an enlightened attack on a debased ruling class or entrenched superstition,” its American version emerged as “a Calvinist exposé of natural human corruption.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The very concepts of intellectualism, and of objective knowledge itself, have been debased by a kind of Gresham’s Law, with the bad driving out the good.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Meanwhile, the tenor of public debate was steadily debased.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2023
The burden of being publicly debased felt a tiny bit lighter because she understood how humiliated I felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
The remarks grew ever more debased and treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he claimed - was obliged to intervene with the suggestion that such talk was bad form.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
