Degenerate
Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.
To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
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Degenerate Quotations
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Charles de Montesquieu
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
Simone Weil
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe
The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.
John Hersey
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
Jerry Brown
Degenerate Translations
degenerate in Dutch is degenereren, ontaarden, verbasteren
degenerate in German is entkoppeln, entarten, ausarten, entarten
degenerate in Latin is degenero
degenerate in Norwegian is utarte
degenerate in Spanish is degenerar
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