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

“Old gentlemen would come and shake their sticks outside the shop window and yell ‘degenerate’ and ‘obscene,’” Ms. Quant recalled.

From Washington Post

The race degenerated to a level of nastiness to rival any ordinary election.

From Washington Post

In the weeks leadin g up to this indictment, Donald Trump was attacking Bragg online, calling him an animal, racist, degenerate.

From Salon

Trump has called Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who indicted him, a “degenerate psychopath.”

From New York Times