Are these cloths debased by the use of shoddy?
No one could possibly allege that in those countries the morals of the public are debased or corrupted by what happens in the theatre.
Fantasy or fancy was another matter: a debased or lower kind of imagination, it wrought nothing but havoc.
The having a debased taste in ornament.
Among those of a debased character, however, it can act as a stumbling block, since it demands repentance and the abandonment of sinful ways of life.
For, if people learn that all apparent commitment is self-interested convenience or worse, manipulation for the self-interest of others, then their commitment is debased and withers.
The position of this element at the bottom of the harmonic complex is a parallel to the low and debased position of that which it symbolizes in the cultural order.
The needy can come to seem permanently debased.
