Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to debase.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a manner to debase.

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  • adverb In a debasing manner.

Etymologies

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debasing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I think everyone understood the debasingly brilliant sarcasm.

    Tim Armstrong’s Secret Project Is To Turn AOL Into A Low-Cost Content Machine Erick Schonfeld 2005

  • I was only trying you to ascertain how low you would degrade and how debasingly demean yourself to beg for mercy.

    Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison

  • How strange that Mr. Mandeville should be so easily deceived in regard to Duffel! and how debasingly hypocritical was the dissembling villain!

    Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival Alvin Addison

  • He accepted the doctrine of Iamblichus, Ablavius, and the other Neoplatonic philosophers, which to my poor understanding seemed either superhumanly profound or else debasingly foolish; nevertheless my memory retains many of his sayings, which I have learned to understand here in my loneliness.

    Homo Sum — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He accepted the doctrine of Iamblichus, Ablavius, and the other Neoplatonic philosophers, which to my poor understanding seemed either superhumanly profound or else debasingly foolish; nevertheless my memory retains many of his sayings, which I have learned to understand here in my loneliness.

    Homo Sum — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Iamblichus, Ablavius, and the other Neoplatonic philosophers, which to my poor understanding seemed either superhumanly profound or else debasingly foolish; nevertheless my memory retains many of his sayings, which I have learned to understand here in my loneliness.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • It will come by the complete emancipation of the American mind from the thraldom of the false philosophies, the false theologies, and the debasingly narrow conceptions of science which have been transplanted into American colleges.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

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