degenerated

Is VDH the military historian, classicist demonstrably smarter and more reasonable than VDH the pundit, or has his brain degenerated overall like someone with mad cow disease?

Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution 2009

The most pathetic thing in the world is that the Tea Party has degenerated from a real populist movement (that was years overdue) to a group of racists and nutcases trying to protect the Republicans from accountability.

McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill 2010

Second, society degenerated from the 'greatest generation' boldness needed for the venture.

MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008

But by the end of the 1970s postmodernism had degenerated from a startling assault on traditional narrative into a style as predictable as any other; there are, it seems, only so many ways to avoid telling a straightforward story.

A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

But by the end of the 1970s postmodernism had degenerated from a startling assault on traditional narrative into a style as predictable as any other; there are, it seems, only so many ways to avoid telling a straightforward story.

A Bag of Tired Tricks 2005

''What she and her team were doing resulted, and I'm tempted to use the word degenerated, far too quickly into communications,'' says Anholt...

Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

''What she and her team were doing resulted, and I'm tempted to use the word degenerated, far too quickly into communications,'' says Anholt...

Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2005

This attitude in the long-term degenerated into violence and corruption, he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

In later years, the phrase degenerated to the simple

Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet 1952

In later years, the phrase degenerated to simply "by jiminy" and its meaning had been lost.

Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet Blake Savage