debased
Example Sentences
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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
Meanwhile, the tenor of public debate was steadily debased.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2023
Everest, the purists sniffed, had been debased and profaned.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
