How debased is the public discourse when Donald Trump is the voice of reason?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Donald Trump on Iraq.] Reference

Are modern coins "debased" to any considerable extent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

However, it's also about the place of servants and heroes in a "debased" time i.e., Dialogues, not Der Ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialogues des Carmélites] Reference

Deplorably fraudulent, you might argue, but what kind of debased system do we run in Britain were people are reduced to faking a split-up?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Throughout history sovereigns have 'debased' their currencies for a variety of reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

It's a shame to denigrate the word "guru" by using it in this kind of debased and depraved context.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drudge Retort] Reference

Americans have to decide if they want a country that tolerates this kind of debased, backward behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [theadvertiser.com -] Reference

How can you possibly lie on this forum and claim that you have been to Israel and its society is "debased"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

It was inappropriate and unwelcome, but it wasn't the kind of debased, humiliating behavior Michael sometimes displays.    From Wordnik.com.  [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference

If you have in fact been to Israel (which I very much doubt), I challenge you to tell me how life on Dizengoff Street is "debased".    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Fortunately, readers now feeling shell-shocked by the raving rhetoric and painful illogic of reading that "debased" 182-page RAND analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) SAGAL: ... being debased like this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Mix-A-Lot Explains The Economic Collapse] Reference

Which means the company is getting paid in a debased currency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organization Woman] Reference

If other hands had placed them they might appear ignoble, debased.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference

Then we have the fact that we are God's children; yes, even the most debased of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

"Values" -- the supposedly incorruptible tokens of sacred identity itself -- are all debased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Vlahos: Mother Goddess, Ascending] Reference

She's created an indelible monster, at once pitiable and scary -- a peroxided, debased Medea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Con-Artist Classic] Reference

At the very least, those peekaboo moments were an apt metaphor for our debased popular culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Their World--We Just Mock It] Reference

Does this garrulous man have any idea how much he has debased the currency of presidential rhetoric?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Weird Sincerity] Reference

The flatterer is like the man who stands behind a bar to deal out poison to a debased appetite for gain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Our currency is debased, our deficit is immense, and much of our public appears to expect an imminent Rapture.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The American Religion’] Reference

Walcott's way of dealing with historic oppression is to reclaim the language that's been debased by the oppressor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Loves English] Reference

Kassin says these false confessors are often psychologically disturbed men or women with extremely debased self-images.    From Wordnik.com.  [False Confessions] Reference

No fouler crimes debased old Rome in its worst days than the crimes which the civilization of England's metropolis condones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885] Reference

But one wonders what Dole really thinks of the self-indulgence and squalid confessionalism that have debased our public culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning To Love Dole] Reference

President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrayal] Reference

Classic continued, gradually becoming more debased, with a few feeble attempts at a revival of mediæval work, as shown by Walpole at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

America for money for that purpose, the pernicious system will soon spread to England, and the House of Commons will be utterly debased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

Gothicists the worn-out and debased Free Classic passed into obscurity, there to remain until the passage by Parliament of the Elementary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference