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debased

[dih-bayst] / dɪˈbeɪst /
ADJECTIVE
depraved
Synonyms


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A currency is never debased in the hearing.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

“They also debased their currency, undercut the universality of the iron law, and antagonized the Adem.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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