| 1. | Fair cousin, you debase your princely kne. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | To AUMERLE We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. - from The King James Bible |
| 4. | Those books, both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mout. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 5. | Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 6. | But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | He had all the cold, hard, cruel, terrible features of the green warriors, but accentuated and debased by the animal passions to which he had given himself over for many years. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 8. | He had gone away rejected and mortified--disappointed in a very sanguine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement and not only losing the right lady, but finding himself debased to the level of a very wrong one. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 9. | This nominal sum, therefore, is necessarily higher when the coin is much debased by clipping and wearing, than when near to its standard value. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 10. | It is to no trivial gallant, no woman of coarse mind and easy virtue, no malignantly subservient and utterly debased procurer, that Chaucer introduces us. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 11. | In the latter days of the Roman Empire the Church found the stage possessed by frightful plays, which debased the morals of a people already fallen too low. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 12. | You do not feel, how such a trade debases How ill it suits the Artist, proud and true The botching work each fine pretender traces Is, I perceive, a principle with you. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |