Synonyms for debased
de·based

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1. adulterate, adulterated, debasedadjective

   mixed with impurities

   Synonyms:
   devalued, corrupted, adulterated, degraded, vitiated, adulterate

   Antonyms:
   pure, incorrupt, high

2. debased, devalued, degradedadjective

   lowered in value

   "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

   Synonyms:
   profligate, corrupted, debauched, libertine, degraded, riotous, fast, devalued, adulterated, adulterate, vitiated, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated

   Antonyms:
   high, pure, incorrupt

3. corrupted, debased, vitiatedadjective

   ruined in character or quality

   Synonyms:
   corrupted, lessened, degraded, corrupt, devalued, adulterated, diminished, adulterate, vitiated, weakened

   Antonyms:
   high, pure, incorrupt

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1. List of paraphrases for "debased":

   degraded

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1. Nadine Gordimer:

   The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

2. Jose Antonio Vargas:

   Language has power. And I think we saw that in the Trump administration, how it used dehumanizing terms and how it debased language and in turn debased people, if you call them' alien,' of course you're going to put them in jail, of course you're going to lock them up, of course you're not going to care that you're separating little kids from their parents.

3. Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook:

   The European relationship has changed and will now be shrouded in skepticism, the arrival of a Joe Biden administration has yet to be embraced with the same fanfare as Barack Obama as President-elect, because Donald Trump has done more damage to the relationship than George W. Bush. Trump's outward aggression affected all aspects of European life, be it trade, defense or even the emotional shared ideas and cultural ties. All those things suddenly seem debased and of less value.

4. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 1871:

   Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

5. Octavio Paz:

   Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.