DEBASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debasing mean? 

• DEBASING (adjective)
  The adjective DEBASING has 1 sense:

1. used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

  Familiarity information: DEBASING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBASING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of conduct; characterized by dishonor

Synonyms:

debasing; degrading

Similar:

dishonorable; dishonourable (lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor)

 Context examples 

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self-sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The victim, from my cradle, of pecuniary liabilities to which I have been unable to respond, I have ever been the sport and toy of debasing circumstances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)