"This is what I call debasing the moral currency," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference

It is called debasing the currency, and it used to be considered a serious crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [DISSING THE FED AND RON PAUL] Reference

In ancient times, that meant "debasing" their coins — making them with less or inferior metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Crisis Provides a Chorus of Discord] Reference

Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference

But, she said "Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference

The principals have no interest in "debasing" their brands by mass-marketing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online] Reference

More groundbreaking efforts will be tried, such as debasing the fuel, so that we have more of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Reckoning] Reference

"Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearte.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSNBC Reporter Begrudgingly Apologizes For Chelsea "Pimp" Comment] Reference

"Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference

We think the entertainment industry is debasing America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&Amp;A: Gays And The Gop] Reference

Christianity is the most debasing form of slave-morality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

And for what? for the mere indulgence of a debasing appetite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Sketches] Reference

They wanted us to undo ourselves by debasing our own principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naazish YarKhan: Why Muslims Want the Muslim Community Centre in Lower Manhattan] Reference

Nine tenths of the people must be taught that labor is even not debasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

Buddhism is the basest kind of idolatry, and its rites are debasing and revolting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

The monarchs of Assyria spent their time mainly in debasing crime and voluptuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference

This pleasure in debasing the value of man is also a characteristic sign of the times.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference

It is demonstrated beyond the possibility of a doubt that it is debasing and brutalizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880] Reference

What's to be gained by debasing it down to a legislative construct and a judicial polemic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Thoughts on Proposition 8] Reference

Already hundreds of scientific and philosophic minds who have thrown off the debasing influence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

He invites debasing thoughts, -- the old pure and clean method of thought and living no longer satisfy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

These are the inflation hawks who think its hyper-accommodative policy amounts to a debasing of the dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Baby Step, Fed Risks Needing Giant Leap Later] Reference

We listen to anecdotes which cheer and enliven the senses without hurting the conscience or debasing the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

English counsellors recommended its continuance, maintaining that a failure so to do would amount to a debasing of royalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

All future attacks on future presidents will quickly descend into talk of impeachment, further debasing our currency of outrage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Era Of Bad Feeling] Reference

"Now, when you put on negative ads, whipping the other guy, they always say you are debasing the process," he told the magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shivs You Can Believe In] Reference

It is only now, however, that they are emerging from the most debasing state of mental darkness, into something like enlightenment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Some men come in on a high tide of feeling, like Billy Bray, the drunken miner, who, released from his debasing slavery and reborn into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Progress] Reference

But the debasing of civic culture is ultimately a chicken-and-egg question: does it begin with the press, the politicians or the public?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sizzle Over Substance] Reference

The question is whether Argentina's central bank is disciplined enough to resist further debasing the peso by printing new money to pay the country's debts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo To Argentina: Dollarize Or Die] Reference

Greatly, and above all else, had Jules despised their dissoluteness: how could they be other than the poor devils they were, with those debasing habits which they cherished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

Being a crime utterly selfish and debasing, as well as extremely tenacious of its hold upon the individual life, it was almost the greatest enemy to the spread of the gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference