A person can debase a language by misusing it. From LearnThat.org.
But now I fain debase myself to all who rail at thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It should be called a debase rather than a debate. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: The Non-Debate Debate] Reference
The second reason to debase is to consume the debt. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Despite all the worries that quantitative easing will "debase" the greenback, it's still the currency of choice when risk appears. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
He had dropped it, he said; he could not debase it. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
Make me careful to avoid the things that debase life. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
"Aye, but to debase myself thus were unworthy of me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
Jeez, Steven, how much more can they do to debase our dollar?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2008] Reference
Instead of hallowing the life it will debase and impoverish it. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
And, when you debase that currency, you lose trust; you can't govern. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2007] Reference
Do not debase yourself and become lower than the beasts of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It will, wherever possible, debase the holiest functions of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
The indignant heart repels a conviction that is believed to debase it. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Intending to exalt, they debase the imaginary object of their adoration. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
I would not so debase my profession -- a profession honored by Shakespeare. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls First Appearances in Photo Dramas] Reference
But Eritreans seem determined not to debase the prize they fought for so long. From Wordnik.com. [Back From The Ruins] Reference
Those who patronize this industry debase themselves and deepen the misery of others. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2003] Reference
AVLON: His character was formed in opposition to Karl Rove's play to debase politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008] Reference
Bethmann-Hollweg's phrase tends to debase the legal and moral currency of civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The world will send into her heart its putrid streams of influence to corrupt and debase it. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
His readiness to debase the currency, his efforts to humiliate the bishops, his confiscation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He knew she would never debase herself by uttering a falsehood, and he quietly resumed his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
I think Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Summers and Mr. Obama, they have an active policy to debase the U.S. dollar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2009] Reference
We will not debase them and we will seek to live up to those values of humanity that we pride ourselves on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009] Reference
In no other place does a young person's strength develop or debase itself so readily, for honor or dishonor. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
It teaches him not to subject himself and debase himself before mythical superhuman powers, for his reason is his power. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
In the following year the state of the city was rendered worse by a proposal of Warwick to debase the currency yet more. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Penn thinks most big, commercial movies are abominable, and he's appalled when talented actors debase themselves in them. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Guy Talking] Reference
But the problem is that everybody else is worried about a loss of competitiveness and wants to debase their currencies, too. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Joins in No-Win Currency Game] Reference
Faults of hygiene debase the type, although the type is determined by heredity which in the individual is beyond our control. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Through their training, also, they must discover that the other social classes continuously strive to debase art and science. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
This license has led directly and unerringly to the formation and cultivation of habits more likely to debase than elevate them. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] 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
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