Example Sentences

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Accompanied by an ironic, 1940s-style classic-noir score, Under the Silver Lake’s first hour contains its strongest scenes, as Mitchell reveals ever-newer depths to Sam’s lunacy and self-debasement.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2019

The English came away with ample material for self-debasement, one of their treasured national pastimes.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2010

But when such halfway measures fail, the individual who denies his autonomy confronts a more dreadful alternative: convinced at last of his own valuelessness, he must revolt against this self-debasement.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is impossible to imagine a finer or more complete specimen of self-debasement than that which she exhibited upon this occasion.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

If you hold such noble thoughts in your heart concerning yourself, you will need no threatenings to keep you from self-debasement and self-defilement.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary