degenerate
Example Sentences
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A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”
From Los Angeles Times
The sources of modern art, according to social critic Max Nordau, were decadent, corrupted societies whose artists, afflicted with “degeneration” as a form of mental illness, could only produce work reflecting their degenerate selves.
From Salon
“For me, the whole value in sports has been degenerated,” Logan said.
From Los Angeles Times
But horizontally, under glass in a large table, this caught my attention: an engrossing collection of 1930s and 1940s newspaper clippings Picasso kept — he was quite the packrat — about the Hitler “degenerate” purges.
From Los Angeles Times
One accused Vargas Llosa of having a "degenerate mind".
From BBC
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