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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".

But Kidman isn’t debasing herself or regressing just for the sick sight of it all.

This is the advantage to the debaser of debasing standards of behavior.

Opposition, instead, has largely focused on the politics of the move: President Macron is accused of debasing the constitution for electoral ends.

In a scathing letter, Mr Zuma's former ANC bedfellows accuse him of debasing the "proud history of armed struggle against the apartheid regime" through the "opportunistic use of military symbolism".