Example Sentences

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Debasing a person with an ad hominem attack is the “craziest” thing I have ever seen.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

Shalt thou the talk of Gods repeat, Debasing by thy strains effete Such lofty mysteries? 

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

In at least two of these essays, those on "Debasing the Moral Currency" and "The Modern Hep, Hep, Hep!" she has newly expressed herself concerning tradition.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis

Debasing, grovelling, mean obedience to the tyranny of an order!

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

Debasing the currency is an excellent figure, yet there is a currency as much higher than that of family names, as gold outvalues copper.

From The Carleton Case by Clark, Ellery H.