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degradedadjective having or showing lowered moral character or standardsmany observers deplored the fact that the city's festivities for Mardi Gras had become a degraded, drunken celebration corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, 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 degradedverbpast tense of degradeto bring to a lower grade or rankthe view that such a system degrades doctors to the status of medical employees who ultimately are not in charge of their patients' health care broke, busted(also bust), demoted, disrated, downgraded, reduced canned, cashiered, dismissed, downsized, fired, laid off, sackedabased, debased, demeaned, humbled, humiliated, lowered advanced, elevated, promoted, raised hired to lower in character, dignity, or qualitydegrading the school's animal mascot with a silly costume abased, bastardized, cankered, cheapened, corrupted, debased, debauched, demeaned, demoralized, depraved, deteriorated, lessened, perverted, poisoned, profaned, prostituted, subverted, vitiated, warped befouled, begrimed, contaminated, defiled, diluted, dirtied, polluted, tainted, thinned, watered down, weakeneddescendeddisgraced, dishonored, humbled, humiliated, shamed, took downblemished, damaged, defaced, destroyed, flawed, harmed, hurt, impaired, marred, ruined, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), stained, tarnished, wreckeddepreciated, downgraded elevated, ennobled, uplifted dignified, exalted, honoredameliorated, amended, bettered, enhanced, enriched, improved, meliorated, perfectedclarified, cleaned, cleansed, purified, refined, restoredrespected to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe players degraded themselves with their crude antics off the field abased, chastened, cheapened, debased, demeaned, discredited, disgraced, dishonored, fouled, humbled, humiliated, lowered, sank(or sunk), shamed, smirched, took down abashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, mortified, nonplussed(also nonplused), rattledbelittled, castigated, cried down, criticized, decried, depreciated, detracted, diminished, discounted, disparaged, minimized, put down, ridiculed, wrote offbad-mouthed, defamed, defiled, libeled(or libelled), maligned, slanderedaffronted, insultedcensured, condemned, damned, denounced, execrated, reprehended, reprobated aggrandized, canonized, deified, elevated, exalted acclaimed, applauded, boasted, celebrated, cheered, cited, commended, complimented, congratulated, decorated, eulogized, extolled, feted(or fêted), hailed, honored, lauded, praised, saluted, toutedacknowledged, recognizedhighlighted, played up, spotlighted(or spotlit)dignified, ennobled, enshrined, enskied, enthroned, glorified, magnifiedadvanced, boosted, lifted, promoted, raised, upgraded, upliftedidealized, romanticized in 1643 |