debasing
Example Sentences
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Robbie’s most deliciously debasing scene is when she throws coins on the ground for a desperate beggar — and then that person forces her to watch as he picks them up.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
The Constitution’s framers wanted to prevent the President from abusing monetary power and debasing the currency as English monarchs had done.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
Dismissing the case, Mr Justice Chamberlain said Yaxley-Lennon's own barrister had accepted there was no evidence his client had been segregated "for the purpose of breaking his resistance or humiliating or debasing him".
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
But Kidman isn’t debasing herself or regressing just for the sick sight of it all.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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