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What does degradation mean?

degradation

changing to a lower state (a less respected state) (= abasement) a low or downcast state each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement — H.L.Menchken

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Simple sentences

Since the beginning of time, elders have been complaining about the degradation of the younger generation.

Movie subtitles

Well, in the consciousness of degradation.
Lord, take pity on us in our degradation. Don't turn Your face from us in contempt but have mercy on us for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ!
That's not love, it's degradation!
He's been constantly harassed by the police. subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation.
I'd thought of these things before - humiliation and degradation - but I'd never experienced them.
In my opinion, that thing's a degradation.
I'm calling upon Lieutenant Kolnay to come back on pain of degradation, and to hand over the secret possessions of the Club, 2 forints and 97 pennies!
How can you understand my fear, my apprehension, my degradation, my suffering?
By killing Julia, you killed the part of yourself, the part attracted to degradation and vice.
The slow degradation of what makes a man, his self-respect.
Such degradation of the holy source!
And see what kind of a world they made moral degradation, permissiveness, usury, cheating, lying, cruelty.
The degradation is random.
Lord, take pity on us in our degradation.
My boy. I want you to be a witness to my degradation.
I'd thought of these things before -- humiliation and degradation -- but I'd never experienced them.
The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
The moral decline, the degradation!
That's a lot of degradation.
We will offer pride and dignity. to those who have known only degradation.
I wonder why stories of degradation and humiliation make you more popular.
When the encephalitis became active, it caused synapse degradation, interrupting the consolidation of your memory.
Degradation.
The beginning of the torture and degradation.
It's a degradation for Mr. Jeff.
It's a story of degradation and shame.
I don't want it! I don't need it! That's not love, it's degradation!
She'll witness the vilest scenes of depravity and degradation!
To such an extent that when the Federation records begin some 600 years later, they speak of the Manussans as a primitive people, enthralled to the Mara, sunk in barbarity, degradation and cruelty.
But you are familiar with the degradation propensity Of amorphous materials, are you not?
What do you want? Should we hold a degradation ceremony?
I want to play an integral part in his degradation.
My people will have pain and degradation.

News and current affairs

In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti-Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues' degradation: warriors had turned into traders, he complained.
If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.
Historically, the principal agents of reef degradation have been over-fishing and pollution, not global warming.
Once a world leader in the fight against environmental degradation, America was the last major economy to acknowledge the reality of climate change.
The result has been utter failure: military defeat and a severe degradation of America's moral standing.
Since then, the world has seen countless acts of violence, terrorism, famine, and environmental degradation.
They rightly contest the degradation of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.
While the central government admits to some of the environmental degradation caused by rapid economic growth, the picture it paints is incomplete.
In short, the links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation are too powerful and obvious to be ignored.
So the global nature of this problem must be recognized and addressed in places where environmental degradation is already bringing about a dangerous deterioration in peoples' lives.
In order to redeem the liberal project, American and European leaders will need to reformulate it in such a way that it can provide convincing solutions to problems such as environmental degradation and economic inequality.
In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
Just as a firm needs to measure the depreciation of its capital, so, too, our national accounts need to reflect the depletion of natural resources and the degradation of our environment.
As a child, Geremek witnessed the degradation of those enslaved in the Warsaw ghetto.
Medvedev's assessment attested to his understanding that Russia's problems are rooted in its politics - in the degradation of the ruling party, in the absence of a real opposition, and in the lack of respect for the rights of political minorities.
War and violence often have as underlying causes hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, such as human-induced climate change.
The catalytic and inspirational possibilities of events like the Olympics thus have a wider role to play, one that might just help prevent us from staggering and collapsing under the weight of our environmental degradation.
And, while males inflicted torture, degradation in the presence of women enhanced the humiliation.
What is new today is the focus on urbanization's negative externalities - especially the thorny issues of land confiscation and environmental degradation.
And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country's atmosphere and water supply.
Party leaders may not become sufficiently attuned to the needs of China's people to respond to problems like corruption, environmental degradation, or peasant unrest before crises make them unsolvable.

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