The whole history is a most melancholy picture of genius, degraded at once by its own debaucheries, and the patronage of heartless rakes and profligates.
To mortify him the more, he was degraded from the order of the garter; as unworthy, on account of his mean birth, to share that honor.
Taste was outraged by a perpetual choice of degradedsubjects and disgusting scenes.
Its cultivators constantly make up for lack of talent by the excitement of immoral scenes, and give to their audience of sempstresses and grooms a most degraded view of aristocratic life.
He described the miserable prisons of his time as he only could who had mingled with their degraded inmates, and had exerted his power as a police magistrate to break up the gangs of ruffians who infested the streets.
Then I tried association among my own sex--among the most miserable and degraded of them.
Let them advise the honourable tailors, while it is time, to save themselves from being degraded into slopsellers by admitting their journeymen to a share in profits.
He shall be called an Egyptian," means "he shall belong to a degraded race.
England has already learned that slaves are not necessarily the most wretched and degraded of men.
Mediaeval Europe, which borrowed so much from the East at the time of the Crusades, degraded these angels into good and bad fairies for children's stories.
But caste divides a people into huge families, each member of which has a right to know everything about his "caste-brother," because a whole body might be polluted and degraded by the act of an individual.
It is, in fine, the most base and humiliating idea that ever degraded the human species, and which, for the honor of Humanity, should be destroyed for ever.
These outrages were not the effect of the principles of the Revolution, but of the degraded mind that existed before the Revolution, and which the Revolution is calculated to reform.
It is the basest, the most shameful fantasy that ever degraded mankind.
It was your own virtue, Jane, rather even than your helplessness which awakened for an instant the latent decency of this degraded man.
He was positive that the Waziri would pursue Achmet Zek, for he knew enough of savage warfare, and of the characteristics of the Arabs and their degraded followers to guess that they had carried the Waziri women off into slavery.
While the coloured people were ignorant, they had not, as a rule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities.
I am not the one that is beingdegraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.
Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.
The god of verse, the poet's friend, Whom Nature all indulgent finds-- That god of verse will never lend His powers to such degraded minds.
The Messianic expectation had been degraded as it flowed through the generations, as some pure stream loses its early sparkle, and gathers scum on its surface from filth flung into it by men.
Whatever my text means, it does not mean cowardly and unbelieving doubt as to the power of the Gospel on the most degraded and sinful.
You really dazzle me--but I am not a degraded dog of a broken officer.
In an evil hour, for some offence, he chained me in his Donjon, degraded me in the eyes of my comrades, and expelled me ignominiously from his service.
I once was in Elliot's train, but he, too, degraded me, and I detested him for it.
Much more refined than this granite church at Guimarães has been São Francisco at Santarem, now unfortunately degraded into being the stable of a cavalry barracks.
During the middle ages, crowned with battlements, with the spaces between the columns built up, it was later degraded by being turned into a slaughter-house, and was only cleared of such additions a few years since.
An abused and indignant soil repudiated the ungrateful race that had exhausted and degraded its once exuberant bosom.
Davis, and I had sedulously labored to rouse women to a realization of their degraded position in the Church, and presented resolutions at every annual convention for that purpose.
For several months I devoted all my time to Biblical criticism and ecclesiastical history, and found no explanation for the degraded status of women under all religions, and in all the so-called "Holy Books.
At the court of the Eastern Empire, effeminacy and oriental luxury still further degraded the Christian character.
Another conceit is giving the name of the deceased acrostically in the initial letters of the lines, an invariable symbol of degraded taste.
Nestorius was judged without being heard, degradedfrom the episcopal dignity, and sent into exile; and the obnoxious epithet was confirmed through the exercise of fraud and violence.
He gave them titles and ranks, and then again degraded them, according to the whim of the moment.
I should have thought myself degraded if any one had shown me a friendship which I could have taken for pity.
Most ornaments of primitive peoples, although to our eye they may seem merely geometrical and freely-invented designs, are in reality nothing more than degraded animal and human figures[108].
They are often mere conventionalised reductions of pictorial prototypes, comparable, for instance, to the characters of our alphabets, which are known to be degraded forms of earlier pictographs.
But no earlier forms, showing the gradual transition from the primitive picture writing to the degraded pictographs here given, have yet come to light[117].
Most recent observers have come to look upon the Chukchi and Koryaks as essentially one and the same people, the chief difference being that the latter are if possible even more degraded than their northern neighbours[642].
The wretched anddegraded condition of their women, however, is everywhere the reproach of savage life.
Without recounting all the horrors of the persecution, it must be sufficient to repeat that fifty-four of the wretched condemned, having been degraded by the Bishop of Paris, were handed over to the flames.
The divining or necromantic faculties have been generally regarded in the East as honourable properties; whereas in the West they have been degraded into the criminal follies of an infernal compact.
Tremendous as was the power of the witch in earlier Christendom, it was not yet degradedinto the thoroughly diabolistic character of her more recent successors.
But you have cast me off, degraded me even lower than before in my own sight, made me kneel to you as I should only have kneeled to my Father in heaven; and this is the end.
He was inclined to question whether even the ass might not be merely a degraded horse; and confounded many of the mammals of the New World with their representative congeners in the Old.
Let me next remark, that the further we remove from the original centre of the race, the more degraded and sunk do we find the several varieties of humanity.
In the backwoods of America, in Southern Africa, in Australia, and in the Polynesian islands, the old Adamic type has been asserting its superiority, and annihilating before it the degraded races.
But if man, in at least the moredegraded varieties of the race, be so palpably not what the Creator originally made him, by whom, then, was he made the poor lost creature which in these races we find him to be?
Among the unhappy gentlemen in whose persons royalty is insulted and degraded at the seat of plebeian pride and upstart insolence, there is a minister from Denmark at Paris.
On our part, I say, that to be instructed is not to be degraded or enslaved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degraded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
