All 8 Uses of
degrade
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade.†
Chpt 4
- I don't want to see Dorian tied to some vile creature, who might degrade his nature and ruin his intellect."†
Chpt 6
- I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in…. well, in the consciousness of degradation.†
Chpt 6
- But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin.†
Chpt 8 *
- There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear, and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape, Nature, in her wonderful irony, driving out the anchorite to feed with the wild animals of the desert and giving to the hermit the beasts of the field as his companions.†
Chpt 11
- There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear, and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape, Nature, in her wonderful irony, driving out the anchorite to feed with the wild animals of the desert and giving to the hermit the beasts of the field as his companions.†
Chpt 11
- Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.†
Chpt 11
- You don't want people to talk of you as something vile and degraded.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(degrade as in: her comments were degrading) reducing human dignity