moral degradation

collocation in English

meaningsofmoralanddegradation

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moral
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒr.əl/us
/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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degradation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdeɡ.rəˈdeɪ.ʃən/
the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed ...
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(Definition ofmoralanddegradationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, by the 1930s, the condemnation of bare-breastedness asmoraldegradation, had already crystallised.
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Revolutionary anger was stoked, not bymoraldegradation, but by the unfair distribution of wealth.
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That is then depicted as symptomatic of themoraldegradationof a younger generation, but statements about the degeneration of contemporary youth tend also to be highly ideological representations.
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The forms of government which produce themoraldegradationthat my noble friend deplores are very difficult to deal with by political action.
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We are talking not just about repossession, but about absolute bankruptcy and themoraldegradationthat goes with it.
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Why is it that thismoraldegradationonly applies to our amusements?
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To default in any way in our duty and affection towards it would be for us amoraldegradation.
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I say that there is no difference in themoraldegradationto which you come when you do that sort of thing deliberately.
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I believe that isolation,moraldegradationand psychological depression are far harder for people to face.
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The fact that we are now openly confessing to this kind of thing is a sign ofmoraldegradation.
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We have material deterioration on the one hand andmoraldegradationon the other.
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All this talk about themoraldegradationof juveniles by football pool betting is nothing more than moonshine.
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I do not need to dwell on the evils of unemployment, the frustration and poverty andmoraldegradation.
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It satisfies the public and has not engendered widespreadmoraldegradationand corruption the length and breadth of the country.
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Again, no economist, no statistician, has ever managed to put on paper the figure lost through themoraldegradationof the unemployed.
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It can lead to delinquency andmoraldegradation, and a legacy of a deep recession such as we are beginning to see can remain for ever.
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That only thing it could do was to corrupt the reader and causemoraldegradationin them.
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Journalists talked of the ignorance andmoraldegradationof the area.
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Lucretius, however, replacedmoraldegradationwith the concept of progress, which he conceived to be like the growth of an individual human being.
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The habits of luxury and big spending led tomoraldegradationand the general decline of the dynasty.
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