Sample Sentences fordebase (editor-reviewed)
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Prosecutors said fighters raped village elders to publicly debase them.debase = decrease the status
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One American airman, shot down and relentlessly debased by his Japanese captors, described the state of mind that his captivity created: "I was literally becoming a lesser human being." (source)debased = treated as less-than-human
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Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties. (source)debasement = degradation (decrease in the purity or quality)
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The remarks grew ever more debased and treacherous so that Mr Charles - at least so he claimed - was obliged to intervene with the suggestion that such talk was bad form. (source)debased = lowered in character or quality
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It forbids people to practise their religion, the young are brought up godless, the Church is opposed and its property appropriated, anyone who thinks differently is terrorized, the free human nature of the German people is debased--and they are turned into terrified slaves. (source)debased = degraded (decreased)
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"So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it." (source)debasing = degrading
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The two women stood in the doorway of the hut gesticulating, talking not English but the debased French... (source)debased = degrade (decreased) the purity, quality, or status of something
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At Fairfax Brian and Clarissa clung to each other, exploiting what had happened to them, using my father's debasement as a varnish of cool they could coat themselves with by retelling throughout the school what had happened that night in the cornfield. (source)debasement = degradation (treatment as though of less value)
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If they would kill a priest, why would they not kill a peasant without a second thought, or torture them for sport, or debase them. (source)debase = degrade
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How could she, Ellen's daughter, with her upbringing, have sat there and listened to such debasing words and then made such a shameless reply?† (source)
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He debases and humiliates them after death to show his disgust and his superiority.† (source)
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Then Nickel with its communal debasements.† (source)
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a kind of "debased Romanesque" (source)debased = degraded (reduced in purity or quality)
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He removed the needle and stared at it, expecting something grey or green, the colors of debasement.† (source)
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Hearing "civilized" languages debase humans ... I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was thirty years ago. (source)debase = degrade
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Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.† (source)
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