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Degraded

adjective

1.

Unrestrained by convention or morality. Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous. "Deplorably dissipated and degraded" , "Riotous living" , "Fast women"

2.

Lowered in value. Synonyms: debased, devalued. "A debased currency"

Degrade

verb

(past & past part. degraded; pres. part. degrading)

1.

Reduce the level of land, as by erosion.

2.

Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally. Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down. "His critics took him down after the lecture"

3.

Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth. Synonym: cheapen.

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"Degraded" Quotes from Famous Books

... altogether ridiculous; and somewhat enraged, I told her who I was. She started, regarded me for a moment with a scrutinizing look, and burst into tears, saying—'It is so, indeed! My punishment is just; I am humbled and degraded before the very menial I despised. Take, me, Simpson; do with me as you will; crime levels all ranks. Yet stay; I am still feeble; delay the consummation of your triumph for one week. During that period I shall regain the strength ...

— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson

... low social type. There may be a just distribution of food among a shipwrecked crew, but the attainment of such justice would not satisfy all their wants. The abolition of misery, the elevation of a degraded class to a higher stage is a good thing in itself, unless it can be shown to involve some counterbalancing evil. I only argue that the ideal society would have this, among other attributes, and, therefore, that to secure such equality is ...

— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen

... Degraded state of the Manyuema. Want of writing materials. Lion's fat a specific against tsetse. The Neggeri. Jottings about Merere. Various sizes of tusks. An epidemic. The strangest disease of all! The New Year. Detention at Bambarre. ...

— The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 • David Livingstone

... bad thing arises like a weed in the night and blights the land where freedom is dead; and the aspect of that land and the soul of that people become spectacles of disgust, revolting and terrible, terrible for the high things degraded and the great destinies imperilled. It would be less terrible if an earthquake split the land in two, and sank it into the ocean. To avert the moral plague of slavery men fly to arms, notwithstanding the physical consequence, and those ...

— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney

... walked out of the study a very different being from what I was on entering it. I had gone in with the air of a professor about to deliver a lecture; I came out like a student who had failed in his examination, and been degraded in ...

— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving

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