How To Use Debasing In A Sentence
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But alas, the stir, the scramble, the mad whirl of city life, the debasing contact with low material minds, the daily study of Prices Current, make even of me a muckworm.
A Pessimist In Theory and Practice
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In many civilizations debasing a coin is a very serious offense and punishable by death.
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Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
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It contaminated the buildings that were finished, defiled the churches, debasing their purity of form; this, with the gross license of sculpture and painting, was the great stupration of the cathedrals.
The Cathedral
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He lodges in the town near the school, and thus the debasing habit of unsocial besotment is not brought under the eyes of his superior.
My Novel — Volume 12
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This is what I call debasing the moral currency," she says;
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
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The conscious or unconscious repetition of myths, clichés and fantasies surrounding the stereotypes of the Jew, hostile, denigratory and debasing, are still frequently represented both in the high-minded world of literature and in popular culture.
Anglo-Jewish Writers: Twentieth Century.
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Irish patronymic Shea was euphonized into Shays, as a set-off for the debasing of French _chaise_ into _shay_, was more dangerous than that of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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In ancient times, that meant "debasing" their coins — making them with less or inferior metals.
Greek Crisis Provides a Chorus of Discord
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This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all his commentators.
Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850
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“This is what I call debasing the moral currency,” she says; “lowering the value of every inspiring fact and tradition so that it will command less and less of the spiritual products, the generous motives which sustain the charm and elevation of our social existence ” the something besides bread by which man saves his soul alive.”
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
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In the absence of consummation, the union was questionable at best and easily dissoluble without debasing the sacrament of marriage.
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For the individual, it has a debasing impact on people's originality; for the society, it may promote a tendency toward mechanism ossification.
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But there's something crude and debasing about deploying fiscal incentives to force something which should largely be a private decision, based on sappier motives such as love, between two people.
Love and marriage?
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Her formerly powerful and upright frame is bent and lean; her hair waves in wild, white locks about her shrivelled face; all the rude majesty of her form has departed; there is nothing to show that it is still Goisvintha haunting the scene of her crime but the savage expression debasing her countenance and betraying the evil heart within, unsubdued as ever in its yearning for destruction and revenge.
Antonina
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The authorities argued that the black-shirt wearing, baseball-capped rockers were peddling satanism and debasing the morality of youth.
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The Indian was desirous at once of exercising the minds of men and furnishing them with amusement; the popes were desirous of debasing and brutifying them.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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They never use profane language, bear false witness, engage in slander, gossip or backbiting, or even listen to such debasing talk.
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It is called debasing the currency, and it used to be considered a serious crime.
DISSING THE FED AND RON PAUL
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Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
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Since the 1960s, well-educated and often well-born men and women have followed Murdoch and made money in newspapers, the arts and television by debasing popular taste.
A chance to drag ourselves out of the gutter | Nick Cohen
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In surrendering to the global capitalists, governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.
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The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
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II Sam. 6: 14 tells that when David brought the Ark of the Lord to Jerusalem, he leaped and whirled before the Lord, an act which the Rabbis characterize as debasing himself in honor of God.
Michal, daughter of Saul: Midrash and Aggadah.
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[The reader:] The fact that you cannot determine that sexual perversions such as sodomy are debasing is in itself evidence that you are unable to determine what the truth is at this time.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An e-mail exchange:
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Your local charity is starving of money but Obama's compaign is overflown with money such that he is spending an insanely amount of money spreading lies about Hillary and debasing the only successful post-war two-term Democratic president.
Obama Had 5-1 Cash Advantage At Start Of This Month
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Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
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All that comes from debasing the discourse is a spoiled public forum.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 11, 2010
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We must keep our girls from contact with all that is coarse and debasing; must teach them to behave properly at home and abroad; and not to sit and lounge about or stand in ungainly attitudes; and read books which serve only to inflame the passions, and not to improve either mind or manners.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
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The confessor is the worm which is biting, polluting, and destroying the very roots of civil and religious society, by contaminating, debasing, and enslaving woman.
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
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This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse, the protesters complain.
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It invoked the death penalty for anyone debasing money and provided for a U.S. Mint where silver dollars were coined along with gold coins beginning in 1794.
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So if she's not calling for his firing, what the hell does she want? please tell me what is "debasing" about that comment. did he lower her in stature??? wait, wait, now i see the angle: shuster african-americanized chelsea. ahhh, i see. that's more in line with Bill and the post-SC colors shining through.
Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster
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The only way the US can repay its vast borrowings is by debasing the dollar – a process in which China will inevitably be short-changed.
