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Example sentences for: debased

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If the country is debased and decadent, the cure has to come from uplifting the people, not from acts of government.
In other words, this validation of the media business that AOL is apparently performing is being done with a currency that old-media types always used to slag as "debased" or "overinflated."
' This pejorative development was not extraordinary, because the word ordinary had itself taken on a debased sense.
Her writing since certainly confirms that rock 'n' roll was not her ideal subject, but the idea that the value of her provocative thoughts is somehow debased by her candor about her personal life, or by her willingness to appear topless on the cover of her book, is hilarious.
Rosenman even dipped into the 12-tone techniques revered by the very high priests of modernism who thought his profession was debased.