How To Use Degeneracy In A Sentence
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When I told him about this tidal wave of degeneracy, he advised me not to panic.
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All social institutions have been adapted to suit the prejudices of a canaille debased beyond any degeneracy that our forefathers could have imagined.
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But he never succumbed to the lure of rock 'n' roll degeneracy, generally avoiding both the gossip columns and the gutter.
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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.
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This is called degeneracy, and in D-Wave's system there is quite a bit of degeneracy.
Ars Technica
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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
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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
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Below this mass, these dense, compact objects are supported against further gravitational collapse by fermion-degeneracy pressure.
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To many it is considered a sign of degeneracy not to be interested in it.
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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
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Hunger, misery, degeneracy and the ravages of age were personified, and estheticized, in sculptures of anguished, contorted figures.
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In such cases, the traditions of earlier ages, or of some higher and more educated caste which has been destroyed, may give rise to the notion of degeneracy from a primaeval state of superior intelligence, or of science supernaturally communicated.
The Antiquity of Man
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Bethlem became a byword for thieving, degeneracy and institutionalised corruption.
Bedlam
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But Chopin, too, fits certain pariah stereotypes: of effeminacy, sickliness, even degeneracy.
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For instance, there was the great Mahommedan contact, which resulted in depriving the Hindoo women of their former liberty, and introducing such customs as early marriage, resulting in physical degeneracy to some extent.
New Forces in Old India
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Let them call upon me to repeat any part they think good ground of prosecution: I will repeat it; for I can support, by historical facts, the opinion that I give; and if the country is so lost in degeneracy that
The Tribune, a Periodical Publication, consisting Chiefly of the Political Lectures of J. Thelwall.
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
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Sometimes, it changes people's lives, sometimes it leads people to degeneracy.
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Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema.
Vitality Supreme
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Opium smokers had a darker reputation connected to poverty, vice, and degeneracy, and aroused public antipathy long before other types of addicts did so.
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Cretinism is an endemic disease among mountainous people who drink largely of lime water, and is characterized by a condition of physical, physiologic, and mental degeneracy and nondevelopment, and possibly goiter.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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In time, idiocy, defined once again as permanent and untreatable, became identified with degeneracy, willful noncompliance and moral corruption.
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The nervous system degenerates, and the consequence of this degeneracy is the production of that form of irritation within the system which we call the craving for drink, and which requires alcohol for its immediate satisfaction.
A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science
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To his confused mind English literature was a period of degeneracy, one and indissoluble, in which certain famous writers lived, devoting what time they could snatch from the practice of what he called the decadent vices to the worship of the bottle.
American Sketches 1908
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_seemed_, because what we call degeneracy is often but the unveiling of what was there all the time; and the evil we could become, we are.
The Elect Lady
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The ‘decline of morality’ in subsequent Western culture should not be seen as a mere falling-away, but a tendency to degeneracy lying in the very standpoint of moral autonomy itself.
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Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema.
Vitality Supreme
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Some forms of degeneracy, after all, could be sold abroad to swell the coffers of the state.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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It is the violation of a divine institution in innocency, by the indulgence of one of the basest lusts of man in his degeneracy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man.
Social Sense
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A corrupting influence on young boys (nothing said about girls), a symbol of decadence and degeneracy, everything else you can imagine in between.
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Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism.
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There is no doubt that the appropriately skilled addressee of the Patent would have known about degeneracy.
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Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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The stone marked the place where degeneracy had met its end.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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In an age when so much else has descended into degeneracy, the observance of both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday remains as punctilious as ever.
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A strong shade of degeneracy is visible between John Vataces and his son Theodore; between the founder who sustained the weight, and the heir who enjoyed the splendor, of the Imperial crown.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
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He explains, ‘Among the conditions which are expressions of degeneracy of the body are three conditions known as infantilism, masculinism, and feminism.’
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Join "saith ... concerning the house of Jacob." redeemed -- out of Ur, a land of idolaters (Jos 24: 3). not now -- After the moral revolution described (Isa 29: 17), the children of Jacob shall no longer give cause to their forefathers to blush for them. wax pale -- with shame and disappointment at the wicked degeneracy of his posterity, and fear as to their punishment.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I would think that people would be all over this as a violation of property or vandalism or sign of the degeneracy of Europeans, but instead, we're going to argue about the "audaciousness" of a white canvas, without even knowing what is on the other two canvases that form the rest of the painting.
"When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood."
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But I do recognize forms of degeneracy and decadence, which have been imposed upon human behavior, which some people mistake, for the essential nature of man.
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After 1870, religious bigotry gave way to racial bigotry; all non-Anglo Saxon peoples were described as permanently inferior due to their intellectual, moral, and physical degeneracy.
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Gender crossing was at once a symptom and a sign of sexual degeneracy.
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Some forms of degeneracy, after all, could be sold abroad to swell the coffers of the state.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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I'm not having her study among such degeneracy.
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I would unhesitatingly recommend him for any position for which degeneracy, extreme turpitude, blatant immorality and total disregard of ordinary decent standards are the prime requisites.
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How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation.
Redgauntlet
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They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy than the sound constitution of a republic.
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As men come to believe that the "long ago" was better than the "now," and the dead were better than the living, then philosophy must necessarily include a theory of degeneracy, which is a part of ancientism.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
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Politically, expressing horror at degeneracy was expedient.
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Today's assault on working-class degeneracy only confirms how degenerate the political and cultural elite has become.
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The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure.
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He came to view born criminals less as evolutionary throwbacks and more in terms of arrested development and degeneracy.
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Dazzling, rapid-fire prose and fast, dry dialogue lend tragicomic humour to these tales of individualists who nosedive inevitably into degeneracy, despair, desperation and disillusion.
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-- But for this precious seed, the chosen people would have resembled the cities of the plain, both in degeneracy of character and in merited doom.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The frustration relieves the gap_degeneracy of two optical branches and softens the spectrum in acoustic mode, but doesn't soften the spectra in optical mode.
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moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
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‘The song is indicative of perhaps more degeneracy and depravity than I've actually experienced,’ he admits.
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Then was the Motto of the Crown, or of the chief Ensign of Pre-eminence, _Digniori detur_, and so continued till the Degeneracy of Time, and the baneful Growth of
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland
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It is really a sad thing to see them sink into such moral degeneracy.
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What a degeneracy was there in the Jewish nation, when there were found there so many that had such a character, and could be drawn into such an attempt upon the public peace!
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)