Degeneracy

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1. Adjective

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.

2. Adjective

The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.

3. Noun

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
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