Crossword-Solution: DEGENERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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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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.
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.
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.
All this was gone, vanished into the past, wiped out by the torches and bullets and hatred of these hideous and degenerate men.
Then, under the influence either of poverty or of wealth, workmen and their work are equally liable to degenerate? That is evident.
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.
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.
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)
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Herald Tribune, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).