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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

Those who thought that the shouts of the mob had any real meaning either hung down their heads in shame at the self-degradation of a great nation, or attributed them to fear.

From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de