Antonyms for debasementde·base·ment

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1. debasement

   Alloy may be either some admixture of baser with precious metal, as for giving hardness to coin or the like, or it may be a compound or mixture of two or more metals. Adulteration, debasement, and deterioration are always used in the bad sense; admixture is neutral, and may be good or bad; alloy is commonly good in the literal sense. An excess of alloy virtually amounts to adulteration; but adulteration is now mostly restricted to articles used for food, drink, medicine, and kindred uses. In the figurative sense, as applied to character, etc., alloy is unfavorable, because there the only standard is perfection.

   Synonyms:
   admixture, adulteration, alloy, deterioration

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1. adulteration, debasementnoun

   being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating

   Synonyms:
   adulteration, degradation

2. degradation, debasementnoun

   changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

   Synonyms:
   adulteration, degradation, abasement, abjection

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1. debasementnoun

   Synonyms:
   degradation, abasement, deterioration, vitiation, depravation

How to use debasement in a sentence?

1. Peter Boockvar:

   People are trying to get protection from the debasement of their dollars. They want to be in things with limited supply and that have the perception of value in the eyes of many.

2. David Pilgrim:

   There are many stories told in the Jim Crow Museum, but none are as horrible as these tales. The idea of using the skins of black people to make purses, shoes, belts, and other products is, of course, disgusting to contemporary Americans; however, there was a time—not so long ago—when the debasement of black Americans was so nearly complete that one could read about the skin of a black person being tanned in the same newspaper that reported the previous day’s baseball box scores.

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