degradation
noun
the act of degrading.
self-degradation
-
a word derived from
degradation.
Example Sentences
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But when self-degradation feels like a standard part of the job description, what becomes of the human bits we leave behind?
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Repeated echoey synth burps and dirty bass are a constant as he rhymes words like inoculation, self-degradation, vaccination and military bases in a muffled delivery.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2020
Meanwhile, Bette allows herself to look hideously crazed on camera and garners the Oscar nomination that still goes with that kind of showy self-degradation.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2017
Or maybe it wants to be a more picaresque version of House, with a little less genius and a little more self-degradation.
From Time ● Jan. 23, 2014
Without this dominating influence, character has no protection, but is constantly liable to fall away before temptation; and every such temptation succumbed to, every act of meanness or dishonesty, however slight, causes self-degradation.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.
