All 6 Uses of
degenerate
in
A Streetcar Named Desire
- Scudder: There's a lot more to this which we feel ought not to be talked about to anyone, least of all to you, since you have turned into a criminal degenerate, the only right term for you, but.†
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- Scudder: Is a criminal degenerate sane or insane is a question that lots of law courts haven't been able to settle.†
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- They'll tell you a handsome young criminal degenerate like Chance Wayne is the mental and moral equal of any white man in the country.†
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- Del Lago travelling with a degenerate that I'm sure you don't know.†
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- They told me I wasn't welcome in this hotel and this town because I had come here with '& criminal degenerate'.†
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- Stella: This beautiful and talented Young Man was a degenerate.†
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Definition:
to grow worse; or describing a person or situation that is worse in the sense of deviating from what is socially acceptable