The word
"debased" means to lower in value, quality, or character. It refers to something that has been reduced or degraded to a lower or less respected state.
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Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow
of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.
Genocide has been called the «crime of crimes» and there is a hesitancy to use it in case it becomes
debased by overuse.
Now it is time to pay the piper and the entire economy of Britiain is being liquidated, asset - stripped and monetized and its currency thoroughly
debased in order to bail out the bankrupts.
Respecting one another as true equals does
n't debase proper values.
Unfortunately the whole idea
became debased through exigencies of the controversy with Gnosticism, and sarx replaced soma, despite 1 Cor.
Her recent paintings — gleaned
from debased images of consumer objects, shopping spaces, and humble patterns — employ digital appropriation and reveal her playful, yet deceivingly serious manner.
Really, there's no need, when every night on prime - time television we can find experiments involving similarly «extreme social situations» being carried out on real human beings — subjects willing to submit to the most
debasing forms of public humiliation Hollywood executives can dream up.
«Competency» seems to be a word whose original meaning is gradually being
debased through its increasingly popular use.
The results play formalist footsie
with debased genres, as if Frank Stella had dropped acid before taking up van murals and backlight posters.
And what could be
more debasing of human dignity than to deny human identity to any human persons by declaring them to be Untermenschen, subhuman?
Issues of sexuality, nation - worship, higher criticism of Scripture, prosperity gospels, and a host of
other debased versions of orthodox Christianity and Judaism have displaced what has been called the «vital center» that orthodox faith once imposed on American culture.
All humanity is
debased when injustice is practiced on any fellow human being.
If the techniques of the human potential movement are to be used for personal and business success (the training group movement out of which the human potential movement in part derives had tendencies in that direction) then it is no different from the mind cures and positive thinking of the
most debased kinds of utilitarian religion in America.
The publication and circulation of this syndicated story, which has no merit, is concocted, and which
also debases the intelligence and character of officials of the GES and BNI, is nothing but a diversionary tactic.
What starts out as hope soon becomes
debased into a dialectic of lust, leaving only a sense of chaos and the inevitability of a new reality»
Private Companies like these seem to use their Faith In Christianity to bash and
debase people they do not agree with.
It is assumed to be a poor,
debased kind of language used for dysfunctional social purposes.
Yet she fails to see how abortion and contraception, which she approves of,
debase women even more.
To use genitals to define marriage obviously
debases marriage more than gay marriage ever could and to believe God really cares more about what one does with his tally wacker more than how one conducts the rest of his life and relationships simply trivializes God.
Great article and outlook Michel... the rest of us brokers should thank you for a lame article that puts the profession back 20 - 30 years;) At least you got your name out + 15 min of fame for the small price of
debasing what we do... good on ya!
The Verge Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door Amazon is currently in the middle of courting giant cacti and name changes from
cities debasing themselves to be the site of the retailer's new headquarters, but the company is also infiltrating our lives in more subtle ways: Amazon Key.
Soon thereafter comes the original,
debasing idolatry, described in the enigmatic report in Genesis 6 of the union of sons of God with the daughters of men.
But to allow a superannuated civil rights establishment to
debase public discourse by vetoing honest discussion of problems, real or perceived, between whites and blacks is not civility but cowardice.
The Mayor urges all leadership, including Mr. Dadey, to denounce and reject the divisive appeals that
debase who we are as a state and as a society.
At any rate, I wouldn't
debase Lab Zero to the level of other indie frauds.
Central bankers around the world are
debasing fiat currencies with rounds of quantitative easing, resulting in trillions of government bonds being purchased and swapped.
I haven't seen this film, and so can not comment on it - but to all who lump atheists with communists, nazis, hedonists, and every other
debased human quality, you are wrong.
Just when you thought he couldn't get any lower, Carl once
again debased himself and the entire political process.»
not to
debase anyone's merits but your point about not believing everything people post.
«While we have long had our own concerns over the tendency of central bankers to
debase paper currency by printing more and more of it, the proliferation of hundreds of virtual currencies seems far more likely to be a craze,» Klarman wrote in a recent investor letter obtained by CNBC.
The other is a world that has enjoyed a brief intermission prior to a terrific second act in which an even larger share of credit losses will be taken, and in which the range of policy choices will be more restricted because we've already issued more government liabilities than a banana republic, and will
steeply debase our currency if we do it again.
Regardless of whether it is implemented via an emperor surreptitiously reducing the precious - metal content of the coinage or by the banking system (the central bank and the commercial banks) creating new currency deposits out of nothing, monetary inflation is a method of forcibly transferring wealth from the rest of the economy to the first users of the new or
debased money.
Indeed a key service that attracted medieval merchants to private bankers was their more trustworthy payment alternative to the
variously debased government - issued coins, namely a ledger - based system where transferable account balances were denominated in units of unchanging silver content.