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debased ADJ

debased

debase VB

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Little silver coinage was issued, but in later periods the gold used was debased with silver.
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As the silver coins were debased, other denominations appeared: 30 para, 1, 3, 5 and 6 kuru.
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Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction.
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Every trace of nobility, piety, education, reason is persecuted in the most hateful and base manner by a bunch of debased menials.
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They are just symptoms of a society debased in its tastes by the constant barrage of ephemera designed to make us heedless consumers of... anything.
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Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
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By the end of the series the coins had become illegible and debased, and were too thin to serve for practical commerce.
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Gold coinage was suspended and the franc was debased.
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During the 4th century, the status of equites was debased to insignificance by excessive grants of the rank.
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By this time, the solidus was worth 275,000 increasingly debased denarii.
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