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

Meanwhile, the tenor of public debate was steadily debased.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2023

The burden of being publicly debased felt a tiny bit lighter because she understood how humiliated I felt.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela