Read full poem →Already hear the horrid things they say,
Already see you a degraded toast,
And all your honour in a whisper lost!
Dictionary Entry
To lower in value or social position.
In a Sentence
“Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “degraded”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →beads, agnus deis, and other catholic trumpery. At his back, his
holiness's privy counsellor, the degraded Seraphim, (_anglice_ the
devil,) frequently caressing, hugging, and whispering him, and oft
Read full poem →And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
Read full poem →And thus we rust Life's iron chain
Degraded and alone:
And some men curse, and some men weep,
Read full poem →When thou wert faithful to thyself and me
I dare not now through thy degraded state
Own the delight thy strains inspire--in vain _10
Read full poem →discouraged secular music, like other forms of art, in Scotland; and as
a result Scottish song had become hopelessly degraded in point both of
decency and literary quality. From youth Burns had been interested in
Read full poem →which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought: and,
as the noblest mien, or most graceful action, would be degraded and
obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or
Read full poem →Maker, and his first origin, and his nobility, and thence be-
come degraded till he is unnoble.