The word 'debasing' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is often used to describe the act of lowering or degrading something, usually in terms of value or quality. Example: The politicians were accused of debasing the political discourse with their constant bickering and mudslinging tactics.
It regards oil, priced in dollars, as a currency that the Federal Reserve is debasing with its "quantitative easing" money-printing, and would rather leave it in the ground for now.
More troubling, however, was the response of the state prosecution service, which took up their case and charged the organisers with "debasing the religious beliefs of citizens and inciting religious hatred".
The Emperor Nero was short of a few denarii to pay his soldiers so he created some more by debasing the currency.
This flowered into a preoccupation with the money supply and a lifelong conviction that governments must be prevented from debasing the currency.Not all of Mr Paul's positions are unpopular.
Dwight McDonald wrote in his 1962 review of Webster's third New International Dictionary about modern permissive attitudes "debasing our language by rendering it less precise".
Flooding the market with new work is like debasing the coinage, a strategy used from Nero to the Weimar Republic with disastrous consequences.
The motto at the party's summit last week was: "Enough with the bribes, vote for Ak Zhol .In this section In all the wrong places The army flexes its muscles Debasing the base Let's get together Own goal The Lord will provide ReprintsTo bolster its position, Ak Zhol has signed an electoral pact with the other two opposition parties: Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan and the Communist Party.
And such knockabout stuff has a way of debasing anyone who takes part in it.
Later, taxonomists are urged to be honest to avoid debasing the value of species, clearly implying that the increase in species numbers ("species inflation") is a conscious effort to misrepresent biological diversity so as to increase conservation efforts.
To deflect criticism that it is debasing the national currency, the CBN recently changed the way it sells foreign exchange.
Boniface not only revoked the concessions of 1297 but rebuked Philip for seizing clerical property and debasing the coinage, among other things, and he summoned French prelates to Rome to proceed with a reform of the kingdom.
