debasing

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".

Another image floats over the Constitution, and in one he sits on the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, symbolically debasing President Lincoln and his legacy about freeing slaves and uniting the country.

It's just Kevin McCarthy's turn in the proverbial barrel, though he almost certainly hasn't helped his cause by constantly debasing himself before the hardliners.