The word "debased" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it refers to having a degraded moral state or quality, or to reducing the value of something. Example sentence: The integrity of the team was debased by the player's negative attitude.
Je suis what I say je suis, I beat up queers and stole from churches; burglary became a religious rite, elevating me to poet of the underworld even as I willingly debased myself in pissoirs Rene jerked himself off in a café full of whores to calm himself down, before stabbing the Gypsy boy through the heart for a few sous.
It wondered: since when did the notion of festival "craziness" become so debased?
But the government wants to get out of the bail-out business, so SIFI status involves more burdensome regulation, including higher, but as yet undetermined, capital requirements.AIG has already been given a similar designation, but the company was enthusiastic about the move since the increased regulatory scrutiny helped to restore trust in a brand that had been utterly debased.
He was a born leader who feared nobody, debased himself before no one and never lost his sense of humour.
Both the BNP, led by Khaleda Zia, widow of an assassinated former general and president, and the Awami League had run corrupt, inept governments.The two parties had debased the country's politics into a Punch-and-Judy show of non-co-operation and vindictive retaliation.
Indeed, from the perspective of the American religion, as Mr Bloom explains it, a moral code based on something as debased as "nature" offensively denies our inherent divinity.
How that could possibly be, given all the debased fiat currency sloshing around, the Yes camp has not explained.
Or will we see another antebellum South, with a vain and shallow society, debased and brutalised?Arnold Brown New YorkSIR – It was puzzling that there was no focus on the prospect of robots being used by criminals in your report.
You could say that Chaucer spoke debased old Saxon, or Shakespeare wrote in a rubbish version of Chaucer's middle English, or that the language has been on the road to hell since Dickens or Churchill or whoever (take your pick) represented its apogee.
In addition, the coinage was debased by the medieval practice of "clipping" of coins, or shaving off the edges to save the silver.
"We urge a renewed emphasis on conservation," he sighs.Why would it matter if UNESCO's currency were debased?
