Debased

Word DEBASED
Character 7
Hyphenation de based
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Debased"

What do we mean by debased?

To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.

To lower in position or rank.

To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

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The word "debased" in example sentences

"Just when you thought he couldn't get any lower, Carl once again debased himself and the entire political process," a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, Josh Vlasto, said. ❋ Jacob Gershman (2010)

How debased is the public discourse when Donald Trump is the voice of reason? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Note, It is just with God to debase those by his judgments who have by sin debased themselves. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It was far debased from the English she had learned in Cairo during the last century. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

One of the tests for someone or something to qualify as an icon—a term so debased by overuse that it needs to be sparingly applied—should be the fifty-year rule. ❋ Yona Zeldis McDonough (2002)

He had the sultani gold coins debased and reduced in size in response to increased competition with multinational currencies in the Mediterranean. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. ❋ Unknown (1853)

The unbidden guests examine a row of family portraits, but are too dull to recognize them as men and women, beneath the disguise of a preposterous garb, and with features and expression debased, because inherited through ages of moral and physical decay. ❋ Unknown (1846)

Mr Murdoch, he says, has broken his word and debased journalistic standards. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent: that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency: that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. ❋ Unknown (1826)

It's bad form to call a living writer corrupt and debased, which is why I begged out of a review I'd been assigned of Jonathan Safran Foer's highly touted debut novel, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Deplorably fraudulent, you might argue, but what kind of debased system do we run in Britain were people are reduced to faking a split-up? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, Nick Clegg suggests that Cameron has 'debased' the argument, which is not actually a counter-argument and actually debases the concept of argument. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, it's also about the place of servants and heroes in a "debased" time i.e., Dialogues, not Der Ring. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2006)

However, their undeniable influence on today's literature unconsciously leads some of us to separate different ethnic and religious groups into the 'debased' versus the 'noble', and the 'fanatically homicidal' versus the 'protectors of humanity'. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)

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