Lowered in value
Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
Adjective S.
lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"
Adjective S.
unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
imp. & p. p.
of Degrade
a.
Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased;
sunken; low; base.
a.
Having the typical characters or organs in a partially
developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
a.
Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose
extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center;
-- termed also on degrees.
Degraded
The Netherlands . . . were reduced practically to a very degraded condition.2.
Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons.3.
Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.
Usage Examples
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
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Other Usage ExamplesMarriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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