degenerate

In a sentence

Three example sentences with degenerate, each labelled with its topic.

• The village brands the painter a degenerate for keeping odd hours and odder company, long before anyone looks at his work.

  Literature

• Victorian pamphlets could call an idle young man a degenerate, and reformers repeated the label when arguing for stricter workhouse rules.

  History

• Nineteenth-century clinicians would file a patient as a degenerate on thin evidence, a practice later abandoned as prejudice dressed as measurement.

  Psychology

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