Example Sentences

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What we are witnessing is debasing, to them and to you.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2020

The chairman of the local Elvis fan club is told by a TV news reporter that some people might say this is debasing the memory of the king.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2019

Its very presence, the Leesburg Town Council was told by some residents, is debasing the good people of this 257-year-old city.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2015

Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share our baths."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is so simple a fact and one that is so hard, apparently, to grasp: Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin