Degraded

Examples

• Gradually certain stimuli are selected because of their relevancy, and others are degraded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. Plato. The Republic.
• We shall not then be degraded from our true characters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Excuse my being a little out of temper; I'm degraded in my own estimation--I have let Rosanna Spearman puzzle me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What a degraded and vile sight it is! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They are a degraded race. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The silver coin still continues in the same worn and degraded state as before the reformation of the cold coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this degraded position! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If I say what you tell me to say to him--I am owning that I have degraded myself to his face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This Pope, John XII, was finally degraded by the new German Emperor Otto, who came over the Alps and down into Italy to be crowned in 962. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, he said, I see that there are--a few; but the people, speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded and enslaved. Plato. The Republic.
• The human impulses which create these social conditions, the human needs to which they are a sad and degraded answer--this human center of the problem the commission passes by with a platitude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had not spoken since Issus had degraded him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded, if such a wretch as I felt pride. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But now vice has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her degraded charge had come back, and was standing behind her with the bonnet and shawl. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He knew he was perverse, so spiritual on the one hand, and in some strange way, degraded, on the other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But the fact of the world esteeming her father degraded, in its rough wholesale judgment, would have oppressed and irritated Mr. Lennox. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What greater wretchedness can there be than to live degraded in your own estimation? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We were surely sufficiently degraded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How can men, calling themselves men, consent to be so degraded and happy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Not humbled before God, as having failed in trust towards Him; not degraded and abased in Mr. Thornton's sight. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The people I have longest and most esteemed are degraded by her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I felt--yes, idiot that I am--I felt degraded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened, civilized people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Cheryl