debase
Example Sentences
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Institutions, acting in their own interest, are debasing America’s pool of young, human capital.
Meanwhile, the tenor of public debate was steadily debased.
From BBC
Many had internalized the popular backlash against memoir as a debased form: clickbait, self-absorbed, a kind of narcissist’s public therapy pursued in lieu of writing Big Important Novels.
From Los Angeles Times
They created new revenue streams by expanding the playoffs to 12 teams and — there’s no other way to say this — debasing players’ uniforms and helmets with advertising patches and decals.
From New York Times
District Judge Linda Parker said in her decision, adding that the case “was never about fraud - it was about undermining the people’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.”
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
