debased
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A currency is never debased in the hearing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
At a time when even the greatest achievements are debased in a culture that gives equal weight to meritricious novelty, is it even worth the trouble?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
Everest, the purists sniffed, had been debased and profaned.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
