degenerate

Losses can also occur after a chance gene duplication, when the superfluous copy degenerates, since selection no longer preserves it.

Over the subsequent two quarters, SERP visibility continued to degenerate with a lingering active manual penalty.

Then, with a grin, “And we all know how degenerate those people are.”

The popular narrative is that Hitler and his Nazi regime thought all modern art was "degenerate."

Being a fan of Liquid Sky carries the cachet of degenerate hipness to this day, 32 years after it was filmed.

Few of us would argue that such thoughts render someone a moral degenerate—or even as grievously ignorant.

Protests that routinely degenerate into rock-throwing are not, in fact, nonviolent.

What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.

Avoid sarcasm; it will, unconsciously to yourself, degenerate into pertness, and often downright rudeness.

He observes, also, that these grapes degenerate in the south, but do well in the north in dry and stony soil.

We infer from his writings that his age was degenerate and corrupt, but, as we have already said, his reproofs were gentle.

The Curaoa track is hardly passable, but it must be trod to-morrow by the degenerate feet of their successor the Wallaroos.