Sentence examples for it was debased from inspiring English sources

During the 18th century it was debased, and, after the middle of the 19th century, the rapidly depreciating paper money predominated in Russia's circulation.

Dregni does a very good job of unpacking Goebbels's attitude toward jazz — that as Negro-American music it was debased but as dance music it was important to the war effort — and shows that Django played night after night in Paris, throughout the war, for an audience of cheering S.S. men and German soldiers.

Martyrdom wasn't just horrifying, it was debasing: Spectators watched and cheered as victims were stripped, tortured and burned to death or devoured by animals.

It's debased authority, irresponsible authority, arrogant authority that puts authority figures in bad odor.

It's debased and stupefied, really, but that's daily politics".

Just as often as it is debased, the language is inflated by the empty abstractions of the narrator, who is "trying to make clear what can't be understood or forgiven" - whether she is tortured by free-floating original sin or by political murders she has witnessed, the author doesn't say.

Paper-money is still their idol, though it is debased to eight for one. 56). 56

His doctor observes that "everything that enters the body, adds weight, and everything that leaves it is debased".

Unfortunately, neither of these products were available to me while I was in college, so I was debased to Word.

"By indicating a willingness to, in essence, print more currency to buy assets of questionable nature, it is debasing the dollar by weakening its backing".

To deflect criticism that it is debasing the national currency, the CBN recently changed the way it sells foreign exchange.