All 3 Uses of
degenerate
in
Arrowsmith
- It produces the paint that slicks up your house, it dyes your sweetheart's dress— and maybe, in these degenerate days, her cherry lips!†
Chpt 2 *
- He would not degenerate into a bridge-playing, duck-hunting drone.†
Chpt 10
- He was lonely for Leora, and all his state of grace, all his earnest and simple-hearted devotion to carousal, degenerated into sleepiness.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(degenerate) to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable