How To Use Degenerate In A Sentence

Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
Joining the four points in pairs by lines gives six lines; pairing the six lines in three pairs so that each pair passes through all four points yields the three degenerate conies.
For him, adultery is considered a degenerate act, yet so is divorce.
While this increase or decrease in many instances is a natural fight of nature against the intrusion of opposing elements into the body, it frequently assumes dimensions that are most unpleasant and seriously impair the health, such as catarrhal conditions, all of which are due to poor or degenerated cells of this tissue. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
The "Bath Road," for example, in parts, is as flat and well-formed a surface as one could hope to find, even in France itself, but at times it degenerates into a mere narrow, guttery alley, especially in its passage through some of the The Automobilist Abroad

Could you be a more horrible, degenerate monster?
The degenerate code could well be a product of such selection, but: a) there’s at least two other competing families of hypotheses for its origin, namely stereochemical and biosynthetic; and b) that code went to fixation a couple billion years ago in most organisms, so I don’t see that it could provide much evidence for neutrality selection in modern organisms. Darwin and neutrality - The Panda's Thumb
Degenerate, decadence and emptiness loneliness loss.
Why is it difficult to degenerate (breakdown) plastics so it can be harmless to the environment? ortho-nitrophenol is steam volatile while para-nitrophenol is not. what is the reason behind this? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
And you, Tanis Half-Elven, have degenerated into a liar," Elistan remarked, smiling at the pained expression Tanis tried desperately to keep off his face. Test Of The Twins
Microscopic examination demonstrated hydropic degenerated villi with a circumferential trophoblastic cell proliferation and moderate atypia, consistent with a complete hydatidiform mole.
He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
The thing would probably degenerate into squabbling before long. dsp, Santa Rosa, CA Clinton challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas style debate
In the liquid-unordered high temperature phase (fluid phase), hydrocarbon chain states are unordered and degenerate, and the crystalline order is lost.
Her commitment to a great cause degenerated from a crusade into an obsession.
But, largely as a result of some ill-considered comments by Rhodri Morgan about climate change the day before, the debate degenerated into 'knockabout'. Archive 2007-02-01
A partly degenerate consensus sequence was created from the Aspergillus and Penicillium sequences to evaluate the statistical significance of this alignment.
The morale of the enemy soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
The utriculus opens broadly into the scala tympani, and the nervous elements of the cochlea are degenerate. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
His paintings were exhibited in Pittsburgh as early as 1927 and again in 1931 at the Museum of Modern Art. But Nazi rule (which deemed his art degenerate), World War II and postwar abstractionism relegated Dix to the background, and unlike Max Beckmann and George Grosz — the Berlin painter with whom he is often linked — Dix did not immigrate to the U.S. Sex, Blood and War
Sesostris, or Pharaoh Ramses II, whose mummy was unswathed in 1886 by Maspero of the Bulak Museum, and recognised as that of the greatest king of Egypt, whose grandson, Ramses III, was the last king of an ancient kingdom. when not a mere pretence, degenerated but too often into Black Magic.
They're just moral degenerates with no sense of decency.
Atoms that are compressed into this minimum volume are said to be in a degenerate state.
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
Second, the web is organic, growing daily, so new ‘degenerate’ sites regularly emerge and also resurrections of banned sites spring up in new places.
The work of the reformer inevitably degenerates into the mere strenuosity of the campaign, The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture. Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There are three non-degenerate conics: the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola.
But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message. Times, Sunday Times
The productive had to bear ever greater tax burdens in order to support the growing numbers of degenerates, and higher fiscal exactions naturally persuaded the prudent middle classes to go in for practices of family limitation.
If we adopt the assumption, then of course what medical materialism insists on must be true in a general way, if not in every detail: Saint Paul certainly had once an epileptoid, if not an epileptic seizure; George Fox was an hereditary degenerate; Carlyle was undoubtedly auto-intoxicated by some organ or other, no matter which -- and the rest. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Argument and competition are potentially beneficial and fruitful; both may degenerate into conflict if badly managed.
We don't find Achilles any the less interesting because we doubt the ability of any degenerate modern to calmly destroy such outnumbering hosts of his fellow beings, and send such a throng of warrior souls to hades without scath or scar to his invulnerable self. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Macon Leary is a reluctant travel writer, whose usual emotional frigidity degenerates to near-paralysis after his son is murdered and his wife leaves him.
This attitude in the long-term degenerated into violence and corruption, he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Combine television viewing with countless hours logged onto the Internet, and one could argue that Americans have degenerated into a society of semi-literate loners.
It has been asserted that the darnel is a degenerated kind of wheat; and attempts have been made to give additional significance to our Lord's instructive parable by injecting this thought; there is no scientific warrant for the strained conception, however, and earnest students will not be misled thereby. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
Attempts by the UK government to prop up the pound on the exchange markets degenerated into chaos.
To leave a habitat to degenerate and perhaps be destroyed is to injure all its animals, including of course the species concerned.
If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
It is not surprising that knowledge of one's own mental state should turn out to be a limiting or degenerate case of knowledge.
Not the likes of you and me, but toffee-nosed degenerates who slipped the wool over most people's eyes. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
The collapsed core will become a white dwarf, composed of degenerate matter supported by the inability of two electrons to occupy the same space.
As can be imagined, they were very easily degenerated into hot-tempered battles fought in deadly earnest.
The retinal pigment membrane cells slowly degenerate and atrophy, and central vision is lost.
In later years, the phrase degenerated to simply "by jiminy" and its meaning had been lost. Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
The conference degenerated into a complete fiasco.
Indeed, unless some such suprasensible and unifying principle were available, phonetic spelling would speedily perish in an infinity of degenerate variations. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.
Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
While the hobos, degenerates and backpackers passed by (you need a keen eye to tell the difference), we chatted for a while about this and that.
The debtors have owed the creditors £50 million for years but believed, with a Christian trust rare in these degenerate days, that they had been forgiven the debt.
The beaux distinguished themselves by their adroitness in replenishing this pot from a huge copper tea-kettle which would have made the pigmy macaronies of these degenerate days sweat merely to look at it. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
That is natural enough, although it need not degenerate into a cultural war. Times, Sunday Times
And to this conjecture I will venture to subjoin another, which hath also its probability, viz. that it is not improbable but the familiars of witches are a vile kind of spirits of a very inferior constitution and nature; and none of those that were once of the highest hierarchy now degenerated into the spirits we call devils .... The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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His skeletal frame has degenerated to that of a 70 year old.
Then I called a wrecker service and had Klaus’s Cadillac towed to a garage 110 miles away in Lake Charles, told a fertilizer company to spread a dump-truck-load of fresh cow manure on his lawn, informed the parish health office he had AIDS disease, ran an ad with his phone number in a newspaper for sexual degenerates. The Convict and Other Stories
These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles!
The first Documenta exhibition signified Germany's reacceptance of avant-garde art, which had been banned by the Nazis as degenerate.
It will be observed that when k=0, the hypertrochoid degenerates into a curtate hypotrochoid, but this degeneration keeps the curve in the set of hypertrochoids that contains the subset of trochoids.
Has degenerated into military enterprises, the future profit growth for the intelligent robot project.
The use of concepts such as hybridity easily degenerates into a kind of eclecticism that gestures at radical resistance while denying the theoretical basis of any theory of revolutionary change. Colonialism
Calderwood felt Aberdeen's performance was decent up until the goal but degenerated thereafter.
I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer.
The conversation degenerated to a personal attack.
The cells gradually degenerate over a period of time and cause paralysis as muscles atrophy throughout the body.
Hyperfine spectrum; Nonlinear optics; Degenerate four waves mixing; The equivalent grating; Isotope detecting.
These degenerate follicles have been termed spurious corpora lutea, or atretic vesicles. Hormones and Heredity
A system allowing full freedom of the press in which anticompetitive campaign laws and regulations were eliminated would not degenerate into ‘the law of the jungle’.
The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping.
Others again devote themselves to laical pursuits, degenerate into Wakils (lawyers), or seek their fortunes as Katibs — public or private accountants. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Must this, and that fair flower of Freedom which, despite the jeers of latter-day striplings, sprung from our fathers blood, must that too degenerate into a dusty quest of gold, into lawless lust with Hippomenes? V. Of the Wings of Atalanta.
There was never a chance that Sunday's final would degenerate into that sort of brutalism.
I'm a brilliant polymath, a clocked genius breasting the tape as an expert in philosophy, literature, sociology, quantum theory, a virtuoso on all stringed and keyed instruments, a capable visual artist, and an obscenely degenerate chain-smoking drunk! Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
I love this comic, despite the fact Sim has degenerated into a frothing loon.
The fight soon degenerated into a bloody melee, each man for himself.
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It too easily degenerated into a concern with trivial verbal classifications, and artificial categories.
In a confidential 2009 U.S. cable leaked recently by WikiLeaks, an official wrote that Mr. Ben Ali's rule had degenerated into a "sclerotic" regime. Tunisians Oust President
Entirely new organizations of industrial and political struggle must be built that are independent of and opposed to this degenerate and bureaucratized apparatus.
Season three has degenerated to a point where they are just trying to break any taboo they can, and it's getting a little old.
It can be obtained from the previous description by applying affine transformations to keep the polygon bounded as it degenerates.
Erm, flipping through dictionary well, "denigrated" IS a word, but I think you're right: I should have used "degenerated" instead. I Respectfully Disagree
According to the perturbation theory, a distribution law of matrix element in secular equation is discovered in degenerate state and wave function property of the hydrogen atom.
In British Low Culture, Leon Hunt notes from that special,Sandra Shulman, author of Daughter sic of Satan 'Their beautiful bodies belonged to the devil–A novel in the tradition of Rosemary's Baby' and The Degenerates wrote orgy scenes as 'a shopping list of perversions' and claims not to have known what 'shafting' or 'going down' meant. THE TEMPTRESS by Sandra Shulman (Paperback Library 1971)
The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.
The urge to laugh is almost overwhelming as the enticing conspiracy theory degenerates into ranting about reptiles and an alien race plotting to take over the world.
They buried him in unconsecrated ground, as befitted a disreputable member of a degenerate profession.
Although they have fully developed secondary sexual characters and show libido, their testes do not produce spermatozoa because the seminiferous tubules are poorly developed and the spermatogonia and their nuclei are degenerate. 1 Domesticated Banteng
The brutality and apparent collapse of front-line discipline is charted in thousands of meticulously filed US government reports, proving only one thing, that any war "among the people" that goes on too long degrades its participants and degenerates into senseless cruelty. Simon Jenkins: What on Earth Are America's Friends to Say?
Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb.
That is natural enough, although it need not degenerate into a cultural war. Times, Sunday Times
But the upbeat note did not last beyond the president's speech as within hours the event degenerated into a talking shop, with many views offered but little in the way of realisable plans.
And what better use can we find for those degenerates who grovel in your gutters, or sell themselves for money? NIGHT SISTERS
The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
In the past, anti-corruption drives sometimes degenerated into, or masked, power struggles.
A discussion about the merits of Bob Dylan's new memoir, for instance, quickly degenerated into a patchouli-scented haze of dewy-eyed 1960s nostalgia and hippie-dippy pretentiousness.
Further, disciples in second adulthood may regress and degenerate to earlier stages of behavior, such as intensely competing to outachieve junior practitioners and emotionally distancing themselves from any commitment to offer them help. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� 17 Generational and Life Cycle Issues
The prevalent formula for nonzero perturbation matrix in the secular equation is gained by the perturbation theory in degenerate state and property of spherical harmonics function.
Seeing that music radio has degenerated into playlists of 100 songs, the time is right to take broadcasting out of the studios of the radio programmers and put it in the hands of the commuters.
Their message about humanity is even more degenerate and degraded than that spouted by the previous administration.
Today's assault on working-class degeneracy only confirms how degenerate the political and cultural elite has become.
Great story and more proof, Cyra, that the average wage earner is not a degenerate junkie milking the system as the Right likes to pretend … Great job! Think Progress » Help Raise the Minimum Wage
Standards in the administration of justice have degenerated.
Her experiences as wife to the degenerate Glyde are held back from the respectable reader, lest they offend like undraped piano legs in the drawing-room.
And when he had long beholden his manner and order sayd: “Your personage doth not degenerate from the fame of your progenitors, but I would fayne knowe, howe pacient you were in the tyme of your pouertie.” The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Ralph Addington degenerated into what Honey described as "the human sourball. Angel Island
When all you do is have big fun, you usually turn into a degenerate.
But by the end of the 1970s postmodernism had degenerated from a startling assault on traditional narrative into a style as predictable as any other; there are, it seems, only so many ways to avoid telling a straightforward story. A Bag of Tired Tricks
Young people want the right to dance to grinding rhythms all night long while their parents fear it will turn them into degenerate scofflaws.
What happens next in these so-called quantum-degenerate gases depends on whether the atoms are bosons or fermions.
At x 5 = 1 we obtain the degenerate symmetric case of a triangle traversed twice.
The ravaging giant of Eirena's territory finds counterparts in other figures depicted as monstrous, cruel, degenerate, and corrupt.
This is because they are degenerates, and likely violent.
Cabello, in the vicinity of the sea; and which often degenerate into adynamic fevers. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
'TIS a neceflary Precaution ufed in the Garden, to fet out the feveral Species of Plants, which are defigned for Seed, very carefully by themfelves; left the Fa - rina facunclansy or feminal* Duft, of any degenerated Plants in their Neighbour - hood, be fcattcred upon the Matrices of their BlofToms, and thereby degenerate the whole future Plantation. Christian husbandry: or, A companion for the Christian in his field and ...
We pass over the extravagances and gross depths to which bhakti, devotion or faith or love, may degenerate in the excitement of religious festivals -- _corruptio optimi pessimum_. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
The pressure maintained by a body of degenerate matter is called the degeneracy pressure.
We all clearly understood that if the critical film processing step faltered in any way the entire endeavor would degenerate into a nightmare.
And when humanitarians allow themselves to be used, he feels, the whole sorry business of humanitarian intervention - already morally unsatisfying in its littleness and lateness - becomes more degenerate still.
An evaluating index system is established for degenerated estuarine ecosystem restoration.
The protest degenerated into an orgy of looting and shooting.
Everywhere were visible tokens of that miserly thrift which, carried to excess, degenerates into unthrift of the worst and meanest kind, from which the transition to absolute ruin is both easy and certain. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
The march degenerated into a riot.
Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter, but it was of the bulk of six epistles of these degenerate days, containing, in the moderate compass of ten folio pages, closely written, a precis of a supplementary quarto manuscript of addenda, delenda, et corrigenda in reference to the two tracts with which he had presented Waverley. Waverley
The pronephros disappears very early; the structural elements of the mesonephros mostly degenerate, but in their place is developed the genital gland in association with which the Wolffian duct remains as the duct of the male genital gland, the Müllerian as that of the female; some of the tubules of the metanephros form part of the permanent kidney. XI. Splanchnology. 3. The Urogenital Apparatus
The parties to an argument, absorbed in admiration of their own opinions, seek not to become wiser through discourse, which should be the end sought in all Conversation of an argumentative or discussive character, but seek only to draw attention to their own views and opinions; until that which should be Conversation degenerates into a mere war of words, in which each party strives to talk down, rather than to convince, the other. The Elements of Character
This will remove control of the cannabis industry from criminal degenerates - but it will create serious public health issues that the government had better be ready to deal with.
Do wires degenerate when electric current is passed through them?
The degenerated ecosystem was transformed into the fine ecosystem obviously, and the degenerated land can be used reasonably by building the planted forest of Tamarindus indica .
I'm sure its because they know there really is a God, but they want to deny his existence so they can continue to engage in degenerate sexual activity. Cleaning Up The Mess
Your handling has started to degenerate and you are having trouble holding bank angles.
A group of people - some of whom are reading this review - that find themselves on the wet end of a degenerate culture.
Fuelled by his mischievous sense of humour, the debriefs invariably degenerated into howls of laughter. Times, Sunday Times
Flames belch from the wreckage, degenerate human beings scrabble for survival, the screen is dark and the aspect brooding.
I smell more rank than sweet, I look more degenerate than newly budded. GALILEE
The most pathetic thing in the world is that the Tea Party has degenerated from a real populist movement (that was years overdue) to a group of racists and nutcases trying to protect the Republicans from accountability. McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill
Hmm's," "Oh's," and "Ah's" while examining the tension-wracked subject, and by their ponderous Greek and Latin terminology: ankyloglossia: to put one's foot (up to the ankle) in one's mouth. arthritis: excessive devotion to a legendary English king. ballism: excessive venery. basophilia carpitis: degenerate predilection for certain type fish. bathophobia: childhood aversion to shower. beri-beri: a most grave disease. bigeminy: expression favored by rural physicians; of. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
They have a simple shrewdness, which, under a better system, had made them enterprising; but this quality has degenerated into cunning and cheatery, -- the weapons which the hopelessly oppressed always use. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
No society's moral vision has ever, surely, been more degenerate than that.
Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests. The English Is Coming!
The game degenerated into something of a muddle for a spell, with both sides missing passes and points galore.
Alternately, discussions in meetings can be muted, disingenuous, or characterized by personalized arguments that can quickly degenerate into conflict.
Objective To discuss the X-ray and biomechanics characteristic of lumbar spondylolisthesis with intact neural arch and analyze the pathological course of degenerate lumbar instability.
Mentally, he probably degenerated to the point where his main concerns are the basic human instincts.
The main forms of corruption in the eyes of the locals are bribe-taking, a degenerate life-style and unreasonable fines inflicted on locals.
Anya pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers, unwilling to let the conversation degenerate into a discussion of which member of the Order of the Golden Dawn had the brassiest balls. Sparks
Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare.
He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted.
Generals and others feared that underworked soldiers might degenerate into an armed mob, so education became a useful and time-consuming diversion.
And yet here was his work being proclaimed impure, degenerate, unnatural. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Thus the second - lowest energy level of the particle in a cube is threefold degenerate.
Once there were beliefs, these degenerated into ideas, then into ideologies.
The woods in front of them degenerated into a thick grove of bamboo and undergrowth.
If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
Now, I'm no degenerate drug addict or anything, but I do like to toke on the occasional stick now and again.
When the Soviet system degenerated and economic statistics became unlinked from reality, the whole structure collapsed. Avoiding Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
An axon which has degenerated through injury or disease can sometimes be regenerated, provided its neurilemma has remained intact. The Human Brain
I. i.259 (286,2) The strain of man's bred out/Into baboon and monkey] Man is exhausted and degenerated; his _strain_ or lineage is worn down into monkey. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
The conversation degenerated to a personal attack.
The pressure due to the ions can then be treated as an ideal gas, but the pressure due to the degenerate electrons is much larger and hence the gas obeys a different equation of state.
The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Dearest Glenda Becky, those who practice hara-kiri use swords, not knives you feckless fcuking degenerate MORON. Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
When we forget that our longing for the good and the true is grounded in the beautiful, the spiritual life degenerates into moralism and perfectionism.
As the wind picked up, the tent poles began to creak and the drizzle degenerated into a downpour, the young Englishman scuttled off into the clubhouse hoping that doom-laden forecasts would work in his favour.
The main conflict is set up pretty early, but again, it seems to get off track and degenerate into lots of minor conflicts. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Think Like an Editor
Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes.
In their absence, Nordlinger implies that conflict regulation will not occur and Lijphart's centrifugal democracy will degenerate into civil war.
In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day.
Is VDH the military historian, classicist demonstrably smarter and more reasonable than VDH the pundit, or has his brain degenerated overall like someone with mad cow disease? Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution
One can only feel sorry for the West Virginian tourist board who must now be tiring of seeing everyone portrayed as either a redneck degenerate, or dopey member of the sheriff's department who is unable to save the day!
In both cases doctors only have about 30 minutes after the heart stops beating to safeguard organs, by pumping a preservative fluid into the body, before it starts to degenerate.
Most varieties won't be found in the US and many of the older ones have degenerated from the original because of being raised from seed not properly rogued.
There are theories about the cosmos, theories about degenerate beings, karma and all sorts of other issues.
What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it?
When degenerate love runs riot, it dethrones the Almighty, makes gods of clay and besots itself before them. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
Many are also being paid by certain depraved, degenerate factions within the German government. Scientologists, WWII Star of David spoof
As a result, our media have increasingly degenerated into self-referential ideological boutiques, with Fox News being the one most likely to annoy Hartmann's fans. Ian Fletcher: Review: Thom Hartmann's Rebooting the American Dream
The group degenerated into a bunch of randomly run fiefdoms, with octogenarians on the boards and no modern management systems, checks, or controls.
Liberty often degenerates into lawlessness.
There was another parallelogram - a smallish and a degenerate one - that is often omitted in reproductions.
Therefore, under our conditions, we may not detect up to 13.4% degenerate copies of this repetitive DNA motif in the mitochondrial genome.
Once the pride of Russia's armed forces, the Northern Fleet has been allowed to degenerate to a state in which it is positively dangerous for the ships to put to sea.
It is of course self-evident that poverty should not degenerate into wretchedness, which is no less an abundant source of moral dangers than is excessive wealth. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
An example of why has come up on this post, where a disagreement between two posters degenerated into crude obscenity.
The war degenerated into a bloodbath of tribal killings.
But his dropsical face, looming from the billboards in Libya's cities, has grown more mournful and deranged as the political structures he conjured up have degenerated. Libya: Gaddafi's destructive path | Editorial
One often has the feeling that the more trivial and unimportant is the reason for a conflict, the more probable it is for it to degenerate into something serious. Totem And Task
When the serous canal contracts and degenerates to the form of a simple cord, it leaves the fibrous canal still continuous above with the fibrous membrane (transversalis fascia) of the abdomen, and below with the fibrous envelope (tunica albuginea) of the testis; and at the adult period, this fibrous canal is known as the internal spermatic sheath, or infundibuliform fascia enclosing the remains of the serous canal, together with the spermatic vessels, &c. Surgical Anatomy
And, as I have said before, that phallicism usually appears to have degenerated into immorality of a very pronounced type is to be deplored, but an immoral view of human relations is by no means a necessary corollary to a sexual theory of the universe. 143 Bygone Beliefs
Today I spent most of my time programming, or scripting (which is a degenerate form, I suppose,) which is not usually what I do.
Samples of nondegenerate and degenerate human patellar cartilage were subjected to osmotic loading by equilibrating the tissue in solutions of varying osmolarity.
What happens next in these so-called quantum-degenerate gases depends on whether the atoms are bosons or fermions.
The conference degenerated into a complete fiasco.
Long aware that he was a Machiavellian degenerate, the University dismissed him and suggested he leave the country.

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