Sentence example with the word 'degenerate'

degenerate

abandoned, changed, debauched, deviate, flagitious, let down, pollute, retrogressive, subsiding, ulcerate, withering

Definition adj. unrestrained by convention or morality

Last update: September 21, 2015


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His physical weakness degenerated his mental abilities also.   [Please select]

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Without any maintenance, the once grand house began to degenerate into a rundown mansion.   [Please select]

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Everyone expects the divorce negotiations to degenerate into a screaming match between the couple.    [Please select]

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Then you will degenerate still more, sir.   [Please select]

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Everything has degenerated in this century, even the rascals.   [Please select]

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In the colonies of more than one European country, after the prohibition of the slave trade, attempts were made to replace it by a system of importing labourers of the inferior races under contracts for a somewhat lengthened term; and this was in several instances found to degenerate into a sort of legalized slave traffic. About 1867 we began to hear of a system of this kind which was in operation between the South Sea Islands and New Caledonia and the white settlements in Fiji.   [Please select]

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"Yet the fruit of every tree I planted degenerated and decayed."   [Please select]

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On no occasion, however, had this reduced but not degenerate nobility shown more heroic valor.   [Please select]

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His frankness degenerated into roughness; his decision into despotism; his courage into cruelty.   [Please select]

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In this way many of the higher schools have degenerated into mere gymnasia, or ordinary academies.   [Please select]

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