So maybe it's time to upgrade burgers from debased staple into treats for festive occasions.
Applicants were vetted for Nordic qualities in Himmler's words, "like a nursery gardener trying to reproduce a good old strain which has been adulterated and debased; we started from the principles of plant selection and then proceeded quite unashamedly to weed out the men whom we did not think we could use for the build-up of the SS".
They were elevated, not debased, to become bourgeois amenities; they passed from the realm of false belief to the realm of spiritualized form.
Political language is utterly debased; to construct narratives of hope (or of any emotion whatsoever) from the ruined language is foolishness.
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.
The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA's series, including "My Name Is Julia Ross," a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945.
You would think the word would be debased by now.
Since his retirement from public life, the frenzy that erupts around his birthday each year has only grown - with some South Africans complaining his name has been debased by its association with a proliferation of causes.
Hallmarking silver and precious metals was introduced in England in 1300 to stop currency from being debased.
Goosebumps was undoubtedly one of the effects that Poe had in mind when he wrote about how stories work, and, far from being a debased or merely popular kind of story, the ghost story is almost the paradigm of the form.
An analysis conducted using X-ray fluorescence has found that the pendant was made from a highly debased gold alloy, with only 37% of the alloy consisting of gold and the remainder consisting of silver with some copper.
