Definition of Degraded

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Degraded

of Degrade

Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.

Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.

Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.

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Degraded Quotations

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.
Megan Fox

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew

Degraded Translations

degraded in German is abgesetzt, degradierte
degraded in Latin is inhonestus
degraded in Swedish is nedsatt

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