debased
duh bayst
- v corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- v lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
- v corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- s mixed with impurities
- s lowered in value
a debased currency - s ruined in character or quality
- It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom.
- By today's debased standard, the comedy is genteel, but not so the incidental epiphanies, like a brief shot of a hearse to show the future that awaited some of Preach's classmates.
- In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower.