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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
debase .
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Examples
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Sin debases and degrades the persons who commit it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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While Ignatieff is out of touch and grasps for poll numbers and votes if Stephen Taylor really believes that Canadians are only interested in “jobs and economic recover” he is narrow minded at best and debases all Canadians who work for the betterment of others in Canada and elsewhere.
ProWomanProLife » This sounds a bit too much like defeatism for my taste 2010
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Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson also testified in support of the ban stating that a system of unlimited contributions "prostitutes ideas and ideals, demeans democracy, and debases debates."
Fred Wertheimer: 2010 Elections: Secret Financing and the Campaign Finance Reform Battles to Come Fred Wertheimer 2010
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Your claim is that "One person one vote" debases the currency of decision-making, by over-printing it and failing to concentrate it in the hands of those who are like yourself.
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It doesn't "enliven" the literary debate, it only debases it.
Book Reviewing 2010
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And meanwhile for you, refuse to play the part of the whining, insecure girlfriend who debases herself by waiting around for a guy who regularly makes her feel like the least important part of his life.
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It pollutes and debases the debate in this country, making it harder for us to tackle our problems intelligently or to maintain a sense of commonality as a society.
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The smug satire of liberal humorists debases our comedy — and our national conversation.
Cheap Laughs 2009
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Debased money in modern times in both the U.S. and Europe debases the animating spirit that fueled the Renaissance—the autonomy and liberty that exists quite outside the state.
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The smug satire of liberal humorists debases our comedy — and our national conversation.
Cheap Laughs 2009
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