Inflation has existed ever since profligate rulers or evil men discovered how you could rob everyone else by debasing the currency or printing money.
The word "print", in the absence of a definition, is almost bound to lead to confusion and in modern usage is considerably debased.
Not only are human values being debased but community values are being destroyed.
She said that indecent displays had the effect of debasing and degrading womanhood.
I know that the phrase "the people" is overused and debased.
Moreover, this figure cannot be judged just as £7 below the 1967 level because inflation had debased the value of the £ in the intervening years.
The word has been misused and debased in recent years, and we are, all to a degree, guilty of this misuse.
They have looked upon it as a degrading, dehumanising, debasing thing.
