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degenerate

[dih-jen-uh-reyt, dih-jen-er-it] / dɪˈdʒɛn əˌreɪt, dɪˈdʒɛn ər ɪt /




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Some of his paintings, in fact, wound up in the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition, alongside Dix’s antiwar compositions and Chagall’s rabbi.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2025

Room by room, the works unfurl their themes, among them “Race and Purity,” “Purging German Museums” and “Trade in Degenerate Art.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

That’s the whole exhibition, and anyone who was expecting this to be a Netflix declension of the Degenerate Art Show, with poor patriarchal Picasso as ritualized scapegoat, can rest easy.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Evilthorpe the Degenerate: I am quoting now from a speech of his from late January 2016: “My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

The cub in prison born and fed, The bird that in a cage was bred, The hutch-engender'd rabbit, Are like the long-imprison'd Cit, For sudden liberty unfit, Degenerate by habit.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 by Various




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