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单词 debased
释义
debased
adjective
uk/dɪˈbeɪst/us/dɪˈbeɪst/
worsethan before,especiallymorally; lessvaluableordeservinglessrespectthan before:
Hebelievesthatactsoftorturerevealhow debased we are.
Ourworldviewhasbecomedebased. We nolongerhave asenseof thesacred.
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  • Suchtalkexemplifieshow debasedmodernpoliticaldiscoursehasbecome.
  • Unfortunately, in these debasedtimes, suchcrimesare notunusual.
  • Here weseepoliticsatitsmost debased.
  • Even by hislowstandardsthis wasprettydebased.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Deteriorating and making worse
  • add
  • admin
  • aggravate
  • backslide
  • be (all) downhillidiom
  • debase
  • deterioration
  • devaluation
  • devalue
  • disintegrate
  • dog
  • downgrade
  • one step forward, two steps backidiom
  • regress
  • regression
  • regressive
  • relapse
  • retrograde
  • worse
  • worsen
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Morally wrong and evil
Humiliating and degrading
(Definition ofdebasedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdebased

debased
A symposium to discuss architectural education should at least have done that, for adebasedcoin emerges from these books taken together.
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Sometimes they were char med by the aesthetics of the other side, already attacked anddebasedby them (and others).
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I contend that fringe, like otherdebasedaspects of material culture, can perform cultural work precisely because it doesn't get taken seriously.
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Now if 0.72 liang ofdebasedsilver is employed in trade at an exchange value of 1,000-plus copper coins, prices will become falsely inflated.
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This portrayal is attractive because it helps to explain his purpose in usingdebasedcharacters almost entirely devoid of redeeming characteristics.
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The needy can come to seem permanentlydebased.
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The position of this element at the bottom of the harmonic complex is a parallel to the low anddebasedposition of that which it symbolizes in the cultural order.
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For, if people learn that all apparent commitment is self-interested convenience or worse, manipulation for the self-interest of others, then their commitment isdebasedand withers.
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Among those of adebasedcharacter, however, it can act as a stumbling block, since it demands repentance and the abandonment of sinful ways of life.
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The having adebasedtaste in ornament.
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Fantasy or fancy was another matter: adebasedor lower kind of imagination, it wrought nothing but havoc.
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No one could possibly allege that in those countries the morals of the public aredebasedor corrupted by what happens in the theatre.
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Are these clothsdebasedby the use of shoddy?
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