degenerate
35
8.0
- adjective
- /dɪˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/
- Offensive
:
degenerado
- She's started drinking excessively again, inviting her old, degenerate friends back for late-night parties.
- degenerate art
- a degenerate art exhibition
- immoral and degenerate
So the cries against the degenerate leftists have kind of lost their potency.
- So the cries against the degenerate leftists have kind of lost their potency.
- Is it because they're degenerate or because we're falsely believing that we are not more degenerate?
- But the discourse on places like Twitter, Facebook, in comments sections and so forth is pretty degenerate.
- It's the counterculture away from cheap dopamine and sort of ease degenerate behaviour.
- You know, it is so I don't know because I live in this weird like degenerate Internet subculture niche as opposed to sort of normie world.
Examples
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Leave here without my consent, and all the musical society will know of the degenerate Robert Frobisher.
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Artists have the power, through our imagination... ...to escape a degenerate world and create a better one.
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Someone's gotta save ya From degenerate behavior tonight
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Can't you tell I'm a degenerate?
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German artists, as Germans, could not be wholly culpable for the "degenerate" artworks they produced.
Academic text (1998) -
Their persuasions are wretched, false, and degenerate; their devices are precarious.
Fiction book (1991) -
Nwoye was never loved by his father, who considers him "degenerate and effeminate" (143).
Academic text (1999) -
Many believe that excessive greed is a sign of a degenerate mindset.
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The author criticized the film for its degenerate portrayal of human relationships.
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In the thriving city, some neighborhoods have become degenerate, attracting crime and neglect.
Synonyms
144
4.6
Not following what most people think is right or wrong
95
5.7
Very bad in a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
48
7.8
Very bad and cruel in the way someone behaves
38
7.7
Behaving in a way that ignores social rules about sex
20
6.0
Not morally clean because it is corrupt or obscene
11
7.9
Behaving in a morally wrong or corrupt way
8
9.6
Spends money or uses resources wastefully and shows little care about right and wrong
3
8.8
A person who lives in a wild way and ignores rules about right and wrong
3
7.5
Behaving in a wild way that breaks social rules
2
9.6
Showing no concern for moral rules, especially about sex
2
8.7
Living in a way that enjoys a lot of sex and other pleasures without caring what is right
2
8.3
A person thought to act in very bad, cruel ways
Made worse in quality, value, or moral standards
Behaving in a way that ignores moral rules
A person who spends health and money on pleasure without self control
Used to insult someone by saying their actions are morally wrong or sexually unacceptable
Antonyms
How Corrupt
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word degenerate comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'down' and generare meaning 'to produce', the same root as generate. So a degenerate person or action is seen as having 'fallen down' from a better kind, which is why the word describes people or behaviour that are morally wrong or low in quality.