degeneracy

How To Use degeneracy In A Sentence

• When I told him about this tidal wave of degeneracy, he advised me not to panic.
• All social institutions have been adapted to suit the prejudices of a canaille debased beyond any degeneracy that our forefathers could have imagined.
• But he never succumbed to the lure of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, generally avoiding both the gossip columns and the gutter.
• Conversely, it is conceivable that they just enjoy drenching themselves in an acid rain of squalor and degeneracy, and that their disciples are self-loathing masochists.
• This is called degeneracy, and in D-Wave's system there is quite a bit of degeneracy. Ars Technica
• His head was full of fantastic perversions as to the nature of duty, largely mingled with the signs of degeneracy, which in these days would be called egomania and megalomania. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
• The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the _Georgium sidus_ became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone, whose book, although the most elegant and best digested of our law catalogue, has been perverted more than all others to the degeneracy of legal science. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• Below this mass, these dense, compact objects are supported against further gravitational collapse by fermion-degeneracy pressure.
• To many it is considered a sign of degeneracy not to be interested in it.
• Some eugenicists, analogizing from the germ theory of disease, argued that the United States faced an extreme risk of degeneracy due to the unchecked breeding of the physically, mentally, and morally unfit whose defective “germ plasm” threatened to undermine the health and welfare of future generations. Curry Reviews Two Books on Eugenics and Law