degenerate

• Android for Junkies - My wife is a cell phone junkie, degenerate, addict, etc. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
• The fact that some plants in certain adverse circumstances tend to degenerate, and in certain favourable circumstances to attain a higher type, is well known in natural history; but it seems questionable whether these changes ever take place to such an extent, and in such a uniform method, as must be assumed if we take darnel for degenerated wheat. —  The Parables of Our Lord
• M. Renan tells us that since he left Saint Sulpice he did nothing but degenerate, and the inference is obvious, that he ought to have gone back to Saint Sulpice, despite the literary splendours of the Vie de Jιsus_. —  Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
• What I do want to say is this--it's one thing to discover that we are degenerate, and another to try to put ourselves right again. —  The Willoughby Captains
• Eye strain played hob with the happiness of Carlyle, and an apostle of sweetness and light declared that Ibsen was a "degenerate"--Ibsen, who led the humdrum exterior life of a healthy bourgeois_. —  Promenades of an Impressionist

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