debasing

How To Use debasing In A Sentence

• Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
• Phelps was accused of failing to “demean himself” (= behave) properly, but he has certainly succeeded, then and since then, in demeaning (= debasing) himself. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps
• Since the 1960s, well-educated and often well-born men and women have followed Murdoch and made money in newspapers, the arts and television by debasing popular taste. A chance to drag ourselves out of the gutter | Nick Cohen
• In surrendering to the global capitalists, governments are themselves debasing democracy, making it quite useless for people to vote.
• The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
• II Sam. 6: 14 tells that when David brought the Ark of the Lord to Jerusalem, he leaped and whirled before the Lord, an act which the Rabbis characterize as debasing himself in honor of God. Michal, daughter of Saul: Midrash and Aggadah.
• [The reader:] The fact that you cannot determine that sexual perversions such as sodomy are debasing is in itself evidence that you are unable to determine what the truth is at this time. The Volokh Conspiracy » An e-mail exchange:
• Your local charity is starving of money but Obama's compaign is overflown with money such that he is spending an insanely amount of money spreading lies about Hillary and debasing the only successful post-war two-term Democratic president. Obama Had 5-1 Cash Advantage At Start Of This Month
• It is called debasing the currency, and it used to be considered a serious crime. DISSING THE FED AND RON PAUL