degenerate's Usage Examples:

At one time a wellknown theatre, it had degenerated into a disreputable haunt where nothing but the lowest melodramas were played.

When young,George was handsome and polished but it would seem he was bored with his life and quickly degenerated into a grossly fat debauchee.

These very thick seams are, however, rarely constant in character for any great distance, being found commonly to degenerate into carbonaceous shales, or to split up into thinner beds by the intercalation of shale bands or partings.

'That this accuracy may sometimes degenerate into triviality, and that such absorption in trifles may occasionally hide the broad horizon, is conceivable.

A salivary gland degenerates when its nerve-supply is cut off.

But the Christian Democracy, which, starting in Belgium and France, had now extended its activity to Italy, Austria and Germany, and was striving to arrive at this solution, degenerated everywhere into a political party.

From the number of its cheek-teeth, the banded ant-eater has been regarded as related to some of the primitive Jurassic mammals; but this view is disputed by Mr Bensley, who regards this multiplicity of teeth as a degenerate feature.

These lectures Schopenhauer attended - at first, it is allowed, with interest, but afterwards with a spirit of opposition which is said to have degenerated into contempt, and which in after years never permitted him to refer to Fichte without contumely.

In these degenerate days their supernatural powers consist chiefly in conjuring, sooth-saying, and feats of jugglery, by which they seldom fail in imposing upon a credulous public.

Lying between the fibrin mass and the healthy tissues is a zone of injured and degenerated tissue elements, the result of the trauma.

A bird called moho, but actually of a different family, was the Pennula ecaudata or millsi, which had hardly any tail, and had wings so degenerate that it was commonly thought wingless.

Then mix in a jaw dropping performance by the film 's controversial director as a degenerate white slaver.

Individuals reproduce unexpectedly the traits of earlier ancestors, and ethnologists and criminologists frequently explain by "atavism" the occurrence of degenerate species of man; but the whole subject is complicated by other possible explanations of such phenomena, included in the scientific study of normal "variation.

Synonyms:

pederast, letch, miscreant, lecher, fetishist, bugger, pedophile, paederast, reprobate, sod, sodomite, sodomist, masochist, nymphomaniac, satyr, pervert, paedophile, sadomasochist, deviate, sadist, child molester, deviant, nympho, lech,

Antonyms:

unneurotic, equal, conform, normal, moral,