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  • adverb In a eugenic manner.
  • adverb Using eugenics.

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Examples

  • "No. Of course, you understand that almost no one is what might be called eugenically perfect.

    The War Terror 1908

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • By contrast, in Brave New World Huxley stuck close to what was then known about Mendelian genetics, and his eugenically modified humans owed much to the timely introduction during fetal development of chemicals like alcohol.

    Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

  • Despite its cachet, white bread came under serious attack, first from moralists in the 18th century (as wasteful and decadent, because much of the highly nourishing raw wheat is discarded in making white flour), then in the 20th century from physicians (as a supposed cause of cancer, tuberculosis and alcoholism) and eugenically inclined ecologists (as a source of racial degeneration).

    The Rise of Nations Steven L. Kaplan 2011

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