debased

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It's bad form to call a living writer corrupt and debased, which is why I begged out of a review I'd been assigned of Jonathan Safran Foer's highly touted debut novel,

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  1. Reduced in quality or state; lowered in purity or fineness; adulterated. Silver coins of debased Macedonian weight. B. V. Head, Historia Numorum, p. 207.
  2. Lowered morally; degraded; despicable.
  3. In heraldry, reversed.

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  • With its nearly unrelieved vision of debased, barbaric humanity, The Road resembles a secular humanist version of a Hell House, those Christian fundamentalist sideshows which purport to illustrate the horrific consequences of sin. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 03 - March 2007 (v1.0)
  • If it becomes obvious to our trading partners that their dollar IOU's are debased, and that we have no intention of paying them back in kind, they will cut off our free lunch. —  Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • It's bad form to call a living writer corrupt and debased, which is why I begged out of a review I'd been assigned of Jonathan Safran Foer's highly touted debut novel, —  New York Press
  • But I should not have described those scenes at all, were it not to afford you a true picture of savage life, not as it is painted by romance writers, but as it really is, debased, and wretched, and hopeless. —  The Grateful Indian And other Stories
  • But I should not have described those scenes at all, were it not to afford you a true picture of savage life, not as it is painted by romance writers, but as it really is, debased, and wretched; and hopeless. —  The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"
 

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