debased

IPA: dʌbˈeɪst

Examples of "debased" in Sentences

How debased is the public discourse when Donald Trump is the voice of reason?
It was far debased from the English she had learned in Cairo during the last century.
Note, It is just with God to debase those by his judgments who have by sin debased themselves.
He had the sultani gold coins debased and reduced in size in response to increased competition with multinational currencies in the Mediterranean.
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.
"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.
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.
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.