debasing
Reducing in value
Debasing is lowering something in quality, value, or character.
Currency is debased by reducing precious metal content.
A person debases themselves through shameful behavior: He wouldn't debase himself by begging.
Standards, traditions, and institutions can all be debased by corruption or neglect: debasing the democratic process.
Lower in standing
- humiliateCause painful shame
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- disgraceLoss of honor
- dishonorLoss of respect
mortify · embarrass · degrade · belittle · indignity · degradation · ignominy · infamy
Express low opinion of
- denigrateCriticize unfairly to harm
- diminishTo make smaller
- belittleTo make something seem unimportant
- deprecateExpress earnest disapproval
discredit · trivialize · minimize · downplay · undermine · mock · ridicule · scorn
Asset value reduction over time
- inflationSustained price level increase
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- devaluationLowering of currency worth
- coinageInvented term or currency
minting · fiat · bullion · monetary · circulation · banknotes · specie · clipping
Dishonest, open to bribes
- briberyCorrupt payment for influence
- graftIllicit political gain
- venalityOpenness to bribes
- dishonestyDisposition toward falsehood
malfeasance · misconduct · exploitation · profiteering · sleaze · unethical · scandal · tarnish
Lower in standing
- lowerReduce or move downward
- cheapenDiminish in worth
- diminishTo make smaller
- reduceMake smaller in degree
corrupt · taint · adulterate · pollute · contaminate · deteriorate · worsen · impair
demean
Lower in standing
dishonor · mortify · embarrass · degrade · belittle · indignity · degradation · ignominy · infamy · disrepute
disparage
Express low opinion of
- denigrateCriticize unfairly to harm
- diminishTo make smaller
- belittleTo make something seem unimportant
deprecate · discredit · trivialize · minimize · downplay · undermine · mock · ridicule · scorn · contempt
depreciation
Asset value reduction over time
- inflationSustained price level increase
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- devaluationLowering of currency worth
coinage · minting · fiat · bullion · monetary · circulation · banknotes · specie · clipping · shaving
corrupt
Dishonest, open to bribes
dishonesty · malfeasance · misconduct · exploitation · profiteering · sleaze · unethical · scandal · tarnish · compromised
degrade
Lower in standing
reduce · corrupt · taint · adulterate · pollute · contaminate · deteriorate · worsen · impair · weaken
- shamingshaming, humiliating, disgracing, dishonoring, degrading
- corruptioncorruption, graft, kickbacks, bribery, bribes
- downplayingminimizing, downplay, trivializing, belittling, soft-pedal
- historic coinspenny, pennies, shilling, shillings, guinea
- misusingabusing, mishandling, misapplying, misappropriating, misallocating
debasingelevating
Lifting to higher level
dignifying · ennobling · honoring · exalting · uplifting
debasingpurifying
Removing unwanted substances
cleaning · sanctifying · consecrating · cleansing · hallowing
base, basis, basement, debase, abase, debasement, abasement, debased, baseness