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Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley initially argued that degenerate family lines would die out with little social consequence, but later became more pessimistic about the effects of degeneration on the general population; [15] Maudsley also warned against the use of the term "degeneration" in a vague and indiscriminate way.
Low-life (plural: low-lifes) (or lowlife) is a term for a person who is of low social status due to their low moral character. Examples of people typically referred to as low-life include bullies , criminals , drug dealers , freeloaders , bums, drunkards , gangsters , sex offenders , pimps , aggressive panhandlers , scammers , and thieves .
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
These states are considered deformed because their political and economic structures have been imposed from the top (or from outside), and because revolutionary working class organizations are crushed. Like a degenerated workers' state, a deformed workers' state is considered to be a state that cannot be transitioning to socialism.
Decadence is a popular criticism of the culture of the later Roman Empire's elites, seen also in much of its earlier historiography and 19th and early 20th century art depicting Roman life. This criticism describes the later Roman Empire as reveling in luxury, in its extreme characterized by corrupting "extravagance, weakness, and sexual ...
"I feel like since my soon-to-be ex-husband and I separated, it's been fight or flight," Spelling said on the Dec. 6 episode of her podcast, 'Misspelling'
Ebonics remained a little-known term until 1996. It does not appear in the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, nor was it adopted by linguists. [14] The term became widely known in the United States due to a controversy over a decision by the Oakland School Board to denote and recognize the primary language (or sociolect or ethnolect) of African-American youths attending ...
Tori Spelling is opening up about the mom guilt she experiences after her divorce from Dean McDermott. “I’m constantly letting [my kids] down because my life is not stable,” Spelling, 51 ...