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  • What is this degeneracy?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Vellya Paapen's good intentions quickly degenerated into nagging and bickering and a general air of unpleasantness between father and son.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "If our search degenerates to that level I'll be sure to call on you," I said without looking in his direction.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I dare say his degeneracy gained upon him gradually.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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