Sample Sentences for
degenerate
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    How then could he have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate?  (source)
    degenerate = immoral or corrupt
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    Norbert Wiener and that degenerate who just ran away also came with us.  (source)
    degenerate = immoral or corrupt person
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    I worked hard to get where I am today, and I didn't become captain of a Vogon constructor ship simply so I could turn it into a taxi service for a load of degenerate freeloaders.  (source)
    degenerate = degraded
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    She called him a lying, treacherous slave-trader, and a degenerate Mammon-worshipping monster.  (source)
    degenerate = immoral and corrupt
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    There was now no point in a war that might once have been justified as a search for free subsistence and living space — it had degenerated into vast, inhuman mass slaughter, negating all cultural values, and it can never be justified to the German people; it will be utterly condemned by the nation as a whole.  (source)
    degenerated = deteriorated
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    Somewhere, he thought, in Leamas' long sojourn in the wilderness he would have to break faith with his oath of poverty, drunkenness, degeneracy, above all of solitude.†  (source)
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    He finds our company more agreeable to the degenerates at the trading post.†  (source)
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    Bud's degenerating right in front of your eyes and you call me crazy!  (source)
    degenerating = deteriorating
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    Millions might scoff, but only because they failed to realize how pervasive the influence of art, even of such a degenerate sort as popular fiction, could become.  (source)
    degenerate = degraded
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    Vellya Paapen's good intentions quickly degenerated into nagging and bickering and a general air of unpleasantness between father and son.†  (source)
    degenerated = deteriorated or declined
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    Some of that twice-blessed mercy was always with Lydgate in his work at the Hospital or in private houses, serving better than any opiate to quiet and sustain him under his anxieties and his sense of mental degeneracy.†  (source)
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    Calling people perverts and degenerates.†  (source)
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    I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.†  (source)
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