Crossword-Solution: DEGENERATE 10 letters, 111 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Degenerate a. Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former
state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated;
degraded; unworthy; base; low.
Degenerate v. i. To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was
originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more
vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.
Degenerate v. i. To fall off from the normal quality or the healthy
structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.

We have 111 clues for the answer “DEGENERATE”

Clue Answers
HAVING reverted to lower type (biol.) 1 answer
Morally corrupt person 1 answer
Immoral person 2 answers
Grow worse. 4 answers
VICIOUS person 6 answers
immoralist 6 answers
Rotter 10 answers
flagitious 12 answers
Scab 13 answers
moulder 13 answers
BASE person 15 answers
Low Life 16 answers
Fallen ___ 16 answers
Go downhill 16 answers
Debauchee 17 answers
Debased 18 answers
Decadent 18 answers
retrogress 19 answers
Swine 19 answers
MALICIOUS person 21 answers
MOVE backward 22 answers
perverted 24 answers
Rust 25 answers
Victimise 26 answers
Louse 26 answers
fiend 28 answers
Stinker 28 answers
Decompose 29 answers
retrograde 30 answers
DENATURALISE 30 answers
sinner 30 answers
Defaulter 31 answers
Cad 34 answers
Malefactor 35 answers
wretch 35 answers
Effete 37 answers
wrongdoer 37 answers
Degraded 39 answers
Evil-doer 39 answers
deprave 40 answers
Felon 41 answers
Disintegrate 43 answers
Lounger. 43 answers
Evader. 44 answers
Curmudgeon 45 answers
Offender 45 answers
reprobate 46 answers
Lawbreaker 46 answers
black sheep 47 answers
Backslide 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEGENERATE (5)

The tame ones will go like all tame beasts; in a few generations they’ll be big, beautiful, rich-blooded, stupid—rubbish! The risk is that we who keep wild will go savage—degenerate into a sort of big, savage rat.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
What wise and valiant man would seek to free These, thus degenerate, by themselves enslaved, Or could of inward slaves make outward free? Know, therefore, when my season comes to sit On David’s throne, it shall be like a tree Spreading and overshadowing all the earth, Or as a stone that shall to pieces dash All monarchies besides throughout the world; 150 And of my Kingdom there shall be no end.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
There is nothing of the imbecile or degenerate in his features or expression, as is usually true in similar cases, where some lunatic escapes into the woods and by living in filth and nakedness wins the title of wild man among the peasants of the neighborhood.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
All this was gone, vanished into the past, wiped out by the torches and bullets and hatred of these hideous and degenerate men.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Then, under the influence either of poverty or of wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate? That is evident.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008

Quotes with DEGENERATE (3)

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Here is your great soul — the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
Seneca Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium : All Three Volumes
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert. Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
Brandon Sanderson Elantris
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Herald Tribune, New Yorker, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).