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degenerateadjective having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirita degenerate society in which people had no sense of being citizens, only consumers decadent, decayed, effete, overripe, washed-up overrefined, preciousdecaying, declining, dying, failing, waningdebilitated, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, frail, languid, sapped, soft, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpydissolute, immoraldebased, debauched, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute undecadent having or showing lowered moral character or standardsa movie about a gang of degenerate drug dealers corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, jackleg, libertine, loose, perverse, perverted, rakehell(or rakehelly), rakish, reprobate, sick, unclean, unwholesome, warped bent(chiefly British), crooked, cutthroat, dishonest, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulouscontaminated, spoiled, taintedbad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, nefarious, sinful, vicious, wicked pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted incorruptibleethical, honest, principledgood, moral, righteous, virtuous a person who has sunk below the normal moral standarda degenerate who is uninterested in anything but his own gratification backslider, debauchee, debaucher, decadent, deviate, libertine, perv, pervert, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip bankrupt, delinquent, derelict, incorrigibleblackguard, cad, heel, knave, miscreant, rascal, reprobate, rogue, scoundrel, villainlecher, playboy, playgirl, satyr saint to become worse or of less valueover the years the community-minded organization degenerated into a club for loafers atrophy, crumble, decay, decline, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wanebreak down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefysour, spoillessen, lower, reducedebilitate, underminedroop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt go to pot, go to seed(or run to seed) ameliorate, improve, meliorate better, upgradeenhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthenadvance, develop, march, proceed, progress adj.vicious, villainous, iniquitous, nefarious, corrupt, degenerate mean highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature, or conduct.vicious may directly oppose virtuous in implying moral depravity, or may connote malignancy, cruelty, or destructive violence.a vicious gangster villainous applies to any evil, depraved, or vile conduct or characteristic.a villainous assault iniquitous implies absence of all signs of justice or fairness.an iniquitous system of taxation nefarious suggests flagrant breaching of time-honored laws and traditions of conduct.the nefarious rackets of organized crime corrupt stresses a loss of moral integrity or probity causing betrayal of principle or sworn obligations.city hall was rife with corrupt politicians degenerate suggests having sunk to an especially vicious or enervated condition.a degenerate regime propped up by foreign powers in the 15th century |