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How then could he have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate? (source)degenerate = different from what is socially acceptable
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Norbert Wiener and that degenerate who just ran away also came with us.† (source)
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She called him a lying, treacherous slave-trader, and a degenerate Mammon-worshipping monster.† (source)
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What is this degeneracy?† (source)
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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)
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Bud's degenerating right in front of your eyes and you call me crazy!† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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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"If our search degenerates to that level I'll be sure to call on you," I said without looking in his direction.† (source)
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According to Robert Stevenson, one of the scientists involved in the meeting, their goal was to keep the field from "degenerating into complete chaos."† (source)
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For this type of constitution to be good, it must not degenerate into "tyranny"—that is, when one ruler governs the state to his own advantage.† (source)
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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)
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I dare say his degeneracy gained upon him gradually.† (source)
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Everyone's happy when the profits are rolling in, but when things go wrong the arrangement often degenerates into a mismatched battle for power.† (source)
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Now and then, losing his calm as he felt himself more and more foolish, Hayward became abusive, and only the American's smiling politeness prevented the argument from degenerating into a quarrel.† (source)
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