You're a filthy degenerate.

Islamization in Algeria has degenerated into a civil war that has left nearly two hundred thousand dead and the regime buys the peace of the imams by making concessions.

Don't allow your muscles to degenerate.

In living through this "great epoch," it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot.

Despite their truth, sayings like "carpe diem", "live for yourself" and "know your worth" have degenerated into cliches for justifying rudeness, oddness, and apathy, at the hands of TV personalities and columnists. That is what is called "educated ignorance".

Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

Islamization in Algeria has degenerated into a civil war that has left nearly 200,000 dead.

Go then", cries Pyrrhus, "with thy tale of woe / to dead Pelides, and thy plaints outpour. / To him, my father, in the shades below, / these deeds of his degenerate son deplore."

Though my uncle is homeless, I don't think he is a degenerate.

There remain great fears of seeing the clashes degenerate into massacres.