debased

Example Sentences

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Yet she knows the history that reduced her to such a debased state.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

“He was a man who debased other human beings,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson said the post was "nauseating" and that it "cheapened and debased" politics.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2023

The Earth has been long denuded and debased by our machines—bled of its mystery by the enlightened scalpel of man—and our blood is the price we must pay for the planet’s resurrection.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2023

I’ve been debased through my association with you.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole