debasing
di bay sing
- 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 used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
- He believes that the crisis-fighting measures coming out of Washington are merely delaying the inevitable, debasing the dollar and loading future taxpayers with huge debts.
- The Clintonized town meeting is inherently undignified, debasing by design.
- Poverty, chaos and porous borders have turned prostitution into a global growth industry, debasing the women and children of the world Search all issues of PTI Magazine.