Sentences with debase
de·base
D d - Politicians have debased the meaning of the word 'freedom'. [VERB noun]
- They debased the value of the dollar.
- In a time of homelessness, hunger, social and moral decay, to reward children by encouraging them to debase their teachers with food.
- But to label Braun's conduct as Hitler's mistress as heroic is to debase the term and render it meaningless.
- He wouldn't debase himself by doing manual labor.
- The sweet science can strip-mine a guy, debase and low-blow him--turn a teen-age dream into a teary TV biopic.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: debase implies generally a lowering in quality, value, dignity, etc. [greed had debased his character]; deprave suggests gross degeneration, esp. with reference to morals [a mind depraved by crime]; corrupt implies a deterioration or loss of soundness by some destructive or contaminating influence [a government corrupted by bribery]; debauch implies a loss of moral purity or integrity as through dissipation or intemperate indulgence [debauched young profligates]; pervert suggests a distorting of or departure from what is considered right, natural, or true [a perverted sense of humor]