Reverse Dictionary: DEGRADATION

ADJECTIVES
1200 — SWINISH greedy, dirty, lazy; coarse, degraded, uncivilized
1494 — DUNGY despicable, contemptible, foul; base, worthless; vile, degrading
1580 — DOG-BOLT wretched, miserable, mean, base, degraded, contemptible → obs.
1667 — HANGING-DOG low, degraded; having a base or sneaking appearance → obs.
1674 — LESSENING disparaging, degrading, lowering → obs.
1677 — HANG-DOG low, degraded; having a base or sneaking appearance; villainous, bad
1865 — LOWDOWN low, esp. socially or morally; degraded → colloq.
1879 — SHITTY disgusting, contemptible; low-grade, degrading → sl.

NOUNS
1428 — LESSENING a degradation, disparagement → obs.
1460 — DEBATE lowering; depreciation; degradation → obs.
1525 — ABJECTION the act of casting down; abasement, humiliation, degradation → obs.
1638 — DEMISSION abasement, lowering, degradation
1825 — BACK-GATE cunning, deceitful action; immoral or degrading conduct → Sc.

NOUNS, PERSON
1175 — SWINE a greedy, lazy, or dirty person; a coarse, degraded, or lecherous person; a term of abuse → derogatory
1534 — ABJECT one cast off; castaway; an outcast; a base, contemptible, despicable, or degraded person; a person of the lowest social condition; a social pariah, a humble servant; a servile person; one who, whatever his rank, is morally vile to an extent which might have been expected to exist only in miserable outcasts
1618 — BASELING a base, contemptible, or degraded person→ obs.
1650 — ABASER he who abases; one who degrades or debases
1667 — HANGING-DOG a hang-dog, a despicable or degraded fellow fit only to hang a dog, or to be hanged like a dog → obs.
1678 — CALIBAN a man of degraded bestial nature
1693 — HANG-DOG a despicable or degraded fellow fit only to hang a dog, or to be hanged like a dog; a pitiful rascal
1726 — YAHOO a degraded or bestial person; a lout, a boor; an ignorant, or inexperienced person; an unsophisticated rustic
1861 — DOWN-PULLER a person who has a degrading or depressing effect
1866 — SWINEHOOD coarse, degraded, or uncivilized people considered collectively
1895 — YAMOO a low or degraded person → Aust. criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
1903 — REPTILE a degraded wretch; a baseling → sl. (Bk.)
1934 — BEASTESS a coarse or degraded woman; a disliked girl or woman → US sl.
1938 — MUCK POT a degraded or debased person

VERBS
1375 — LESS to lower in position or station; to humble, to degrade → obs.
1400 — DECLINE to lower, to bring down, to depress, to bring low, to degrade, to debase → obs.
1440 — TO-GRADE to degrade, to put or bring down → obs.
1538 — BASE to lower in rank, condition, or character; to debase, to humble, to depose, to degrade → obs.
1575 — DIMINUTE to lessen; to belittle, to disparage, to put down, to degrade, to humiliate
1593 — CROW-TREAD to subject to humiliating or degrading treatment; to abuse; to debase → obs.
1627 — DISWORTH to deprive of worth; to render worthless or unworthy; to degrade, to disparage → obs.
1639 — IMBRUTISH to degrade to the level of a brute; to make bestial; to brutalize → obs.
1640 — IMBRUTE to degrade to the level of a brute; to make bestial; to brutalize
1654 — LESSEN to lower the dignity, position, or character of; to humble; to degrade, to demean → obs.
1655 — STUPRATE to debase, to degrade, to pollute something
1731 — ABJECTATE to cast or throw down; hence, to lower, to degrade, to abase, to debase → obs.
1889 — BEMEAN to degrade oneself, to stoop → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1889 — UNDERMAN to demean, to degrade → Eng. dial.
1917 — BENASTY to soil, to make dirty; to befoul; to degrade → Amer. dial.
1960 — WRECK to degrade a fellow homosexual when he is not expecting it → homosexual sl.
1964 — CHAP to degrade → US students’ sl. (Bk.)