Crossword-Solution: DEBASEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Debasement | n. | The act of debasing or the state of being debased. |
We have 79 clues for the answer “DEBASEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Storage spot in a Brooklyn home | 1 answer |
| Playroom locale? | 1 answer |
| Brooklyn storage area? | 1 answer |
| derogation | 3 answers |
| tarnishing | 8 answers |
| sullying | 8 answers |
| ruining | 9 answers |
| spoiling | 15 answers |
| Ruination | 22 answers |
| indenture | 26 answers |
| porno | 31 answers |
| Sadism | 32 answers |
| rottenness | 32 answers |
| pornography | 32 answers |
| licentiousness | 32 answers |
| Porn | 32 answers |
| savagism | 32 answers |
| indecency | 33 answers |
| inflicting pain | 33 answers |
| kinky sex | 33 answers |
| physical pain | 33 answers |
| sadomasochism | 33 answers |
| beastliness | 33 answers |
| Ordure | 33 answers |
| sexual aberration | 33 answers |
| sexual perversion | 33 answers |
| whips and chains | 33 answers |
| savageness | 34 answers |
| sensuality | 34 answers |
| filthiness | 34 answers |
| Lewdness | 35 answers |
| mental torment | 35 answers |
| Enslavement | 37 answers |
| involution | 37 answers |
| dissoluteness | 37 answers |
| Smut | 37 answers |
| subjugation | 39 answers |
| Servitude | 43 answers |
| Savagery | 43 answers |
| slavery | 44 answers |
| Obscenity | 46 answers |
| contortion | 46 answers |
| scum | 48 answers |
| Captivity | 48 answers |
| bondage | 50 answers |
| depredation | 51 answers |
| exploitation | 52 answers |
| domination | 53 answers |
| Malevolence | 55 answers |
| filth | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEBASEMENT (5)
Knightley and Harriet Smith!—Such an elevation on her side! Such a debasement on his! It was horrible to Emma to think how it must sink him in the general opinion, to foresee the smiles, the sneers, the merriment it would prompt at his expense; the mortification and disdain of his brother, the thousand inconveniences to himself.—Could it be?—No; it was impossible.
She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses; yet she had instantly obeyed the voice of her heart when it bade her part from the one and serve the other.
She was shocked that, even to her, Evelina should lay bare the nakedness of her emotion; and she tried to turn her thoughts from it as though its recollection made her a sharer in her sister's debasement.
How touching is this debasement of words in the course of time; it puts me in mind of the decay of old houses and names.
Its system was once prevalent in England, and, during the period that it prevailed there, was more prolific of debasement and crime than all other causes united.
Quotes with DEBASEMENT (3)
The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.
When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste." It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in th…
Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1988–2008).