How to Use degeneracy in a Sentence

degeneracy

noun

• Iran could use it as ultimate proof as to the degeneracy of the American way.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
• It wasn’t sacked by Lego-man Visigoths or brought down by the parasitic forces of degeneracy.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
• Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• The stereotype of gay degeneracy seemed absurd when applied to her.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2020
• This is how men like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby get away with decades of degeneracy.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 11 Oct. 2017
• But Charles, who has been waiting to become king longer than any previous Prince of Wales, does not boast a distinguished record of degeneracy.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Moral watchdogs cried foul and claimed these movies not only desensitized kids to degeneracy — think of the children!
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
• These positrons would ever-so-slowly destroy some of the electrons in a black dwarf’s center and weaken its degeneracy pressure.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
• However, now that the Supreme Court has given a thumbs-up to sports degeneracy, knock yourself out, America.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Every word out of her mouth is an indictment not merely of Trump but of her fellow lawmakers' degeneracy and opportunism.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021
• The name conjured high-minded ideals of representative democracy, but this was a true fascist state, complete with shock troops, slavery, and degeneracy laws.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
• Though much historical fiction is escapist, Faulkner’s is brutalizing, depicting a South debased first by degeneracy and then by the refusal to atone for it, even in the face of defeat.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• The means relied on in this form of government for preventing their degeneracy are numerous and various.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 June 2018
• His presidency reminds us that the antidote to Trumpian degeneracy is not the devout straight man but the figure of integrity who can also inspire diverse people.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• And a greater emphasis on variation and degeneracy, at all levels of analysis, as well as neural reuse, must be considered.
  — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• The only way to break this degeneracy would be to take accurate, independent measurements that would nail down the distance to this galaxy, irrespective of any assumptions made.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• In many of these cases, an artist’s very participation in hip-hop is painted as a moral shortcoming that suggests a propensity for real-world violence and degeneracy.
  — Briana Younger, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
• The growth of violent factions involves more than a breakdown of public consensus; private moral degeneracy, technology, and other factors play a role, too.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• For centuries, a marked face was interpreted as an outward sign of moral or intellectual degeneracy.
  — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• In 1930, the Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that, given enough mass, a star’s gravity could overcome this electron degeneracy pressure, squeezing all its protons and electrons into neutrons.
  — Adam Mann, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2014
• Bird joins other impressive authors who have returned to Carter, despite his low popularity, because his life offers an antidote to the ethical degeneracy of our current moment.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• White dwarfs’ crushing gravitational weight is counterbalanced by a force called electron degeneracy pressure.
  — Adam Mann, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
• The hospitality industry, unfairly or not, bears a reputation for work-hard-play-hard debauchery, degeneracy, vice and fiscal irresponsibility by both its patrons and employees.
  — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 28 June 2019
• To support themselves against catastrophic gravitational collapse, neutron stars don't rely on the release of energy from nuclear fusion but rather an exotic quantum phenomenon known as degeneracy pressure.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• Ballet dancers became synonymous with corruption and degeneracy.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• The first mood defends liberal democracy as a precious inheritance that requires tending; the second excoriates it for its spiritual shallowness, cultural degeneracy and tendency toward an individualist myopia or socialist utopia.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• That decision isn’t a sign of cultural degeneracy, societal deficiency, or individual failure.
  — Alex Press, Vox, 31 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024