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Definition of degradation:

  • (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
  • (noun) a low or downcast state;

Sentence Examples:

Degradation and terror were imprinted upon his soul.

And mark, this is simply a natural degradation.

Forms and Formations most liable to Physical Degradation.

Had she also felt the degradation of it?

He had tasted the bitter cup of degradation.

Everything in him bears the impress of degradation.

The degradation of the people there was terrible.

He could not survive that humiliation, that degradation.

They did not see the degradation of it.

No man would descend to such filthy degradation.

Poor Charley, what a bitter degradation for him!

He had tasted the last bitterness of degradation.

It was the crowning circumstance of his degradation.

I should not then have known my degradation.

With such shadows of assimilation we countenance our degradation.

The Arabians were in the utmost state of degradation.

The Arabians were in the utmost state of degradation.

He seemed the very embodiment of woe and degradation.

I had escaped one degradation only to face another.

They may escape a portion of the actual degradation.

A horrible sense of degradation took possession of him.

The degradation of such a situation would be mutual.

Don't you feel the damned degradation of your position?

To touch his hand in friendship is a degradation.

Material good can never make up for moral degradation.

And her son seeming proud of this degradation!

He seemed to feel deeply the degradation of his situation.

And do you imagine I will agree to such degradation?

Words cannot express the infinite and general degradation.

The prosecutor demanded four months' detention and degradation.

The discovery of their intellectual degradation shocked him.

Then the sense of his degradation choked her.

It would become to you at last a conscious degradation.

The appeal was refused; the degradation was continued.

It is in fact a degradation of the pure God-Idea.

Take this stain and degradation from my soul.

Nor was this degradation confined to the ignorant.

It has produced nothing but degradation and calamity.

How could he confess the degradation of his ideal?

Clytemnestra, longing for peace, must rejoice in Electra's degradation.

He could not sink to their level of degradation.

Then followed a period of the lowest street degradation.

To this degradation at least he should never come.

This is surely a miserable degradation of human intellect.

To be that man's daily companion was a degradation.

One more shameful disclosure cannot add to my degradation.

I felt my degradation in stooping to such company.

Paul, seem to emphasize the utter degradation of man.

This brutal principle of degradation soon developed in man.

Savages fond of it, in proportion to their degradation.

There was such a feeling of degradation about debt.

The true instrument of man's degradation is his ignorance.

They tend to the degradation of courts of justice.

There is no necessity for this degradation of illustration.

He bought my womanhood; he contributed to my degradation.

For the degradation of sex, even in this republic.

The whole system is one of degradation and vice.

She cited a well-known instance of degradation in verse.

The cycle of woman's degradation and humiliation is completed.

This would be mere degradation and loss of character.

To what depths of degradation she may have sunk?

His blood boiled at the degradation of his country.

The sense of degradation was too strong upon him.

The degradation would make me old before my time.

The inevitable result is the degradation of human labor.

This degradation is due solely to their own conduct.

I preferred my farm to submitting to this degradation.

Degradation of name, and with it dignity of nature!

Expression is degradation to us, not to the genius.

The degradation that you behold is your own work.

He gives no explanation of the causes of their degradation.

He was striving to lift it out of its degradation.

Educate him, if you wish him to feel his degradation.

It was a sort of worship, almost a degradation again.

It is supposed to account for any amount of degradation.

Indirectly it was a cause of poverty and social degradation.

She shall never blush for her father's degradation.

Do you want me to show you all my degradation?

To be a "stiff" is the last form of degradation.

This may save your daughter from a life of degradation.

Do you think I hope for your degradation and mine?

Asquith called the "intolerable degradation of a foreign yoke."

What further degradation is he planning for his country?

This mining locality is sunk in the deepest degradation.

To such degradation as this she would never sink.

For the time at least degradation hid its face.

Their masters have kept them in darkness and degradation.

Was it possible to suffer such degradation and live?

This degradation is worse than the bitterness of death!

Sentence having been pronounced, the ceremony of degradation began.

She had gone back into utter degradation and iniquity.

He knew he was partly responsible for Granville's degradation.

Not a trace of her former degradation was apparent.

It is not misery and degradation that bring success.

Why should I record my own humiliation and degradation?

Think of the degradation of being conquered by barbarians!'

Still, he was driven to his death and degradation.

We have no right to leave a legacy of mental degradation.

The love of liquor is the main cause of their degradation.

I will not suffer the intolerable degradation of jealousy.