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What does debasement mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
  2. The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
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Mushnick, a self-appointed griper about the debasement of sports and the decline of civilization, prefers to find fault.
David Hare, the great dramatic navigator of our life, times and moral debasement, has been lamenting the surfeit of bodies in television drama.
Patents have made science increasingly profit-focused, a debasement which has led to calls from some scientists to do away with them altogether.
The debasement of the media can be traced in relation to the great political convulsions of the past 30 years.
The debasement and corruption of the media are profound symptoms of the decomposition of the country's democracy.
The utter debasement of the proabortion crowd has to be exposed to daylight.

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