21 adjectives to describe deteriorations

In three or four generations the women of a family in which the practice of suckling has ceased, are altogether unable to give the breast; and the 'bottle' ensues, with its thousand evils and a gradual deterioration of the race.

There's a steady deterioration.

There is here a veritable exhaustion, rapid deterioration, as if our family, in their fury of enjoyment, in the gluttonous satisfaction of their appetites, had consumed themselves too quickly.

The one is the power of habit:the tendency to continue to do things in the same way; the other is the possibility of mental and moral deterioration.

This cheapness, the ideal condition for which Charles Knight sighed, has been accompanied by a distinct deterioration in the taste and industry of the general reader.

There are in the moral world things analogous to the sudden accident which makes a man blind or lame for life: in an instant there is wrought a permanent deterioration.

At last, at 44, a species of stroke terminated his sufferings, causing him to lose his speech and memory, and thenceforth there was progressive deterioration, physical and spiritual, with repeated attacks.

Without outside aid, and with little or no deterioration, they have maintained their nationalism.

It is so remarkable as to be, at all events, worth noting, that contemporaneously with this singular deterioration in respect to crime, another social change has taken place in Florence.

On reconsideration, I am inclined to doubt the adequacy of the explanation, and partly to account for the fact by a steady, slight deterioration of stature in successive years; in the urban population owing to the conditions of their lives, and in the rural population owing to the continual draining away of the more stalwart of them to the towns.

It is becoming a general social policy to prevent the abnormal strains of industry that cause the unnatural deterioration of the human factor in industry.

He was poor, and therefore safe, for poverty is a guardian angel to an undergraduate, and work may protect even the Fellow from utter deterioration.

Many mighty nations have used it for centuries, and show no aggregated deterioration from its employment.

In almost all handicrafts and callings the last thirty years have wrought a vast and rapid deterioration of the men who fill them.

And as the unhappy Christopher already scorns himself the rest of the book (till the final chapters) is a record of deterioration more clever than exactly cheerful.

Even if they could do so they would naturally suffer considerable loss by the condition of the market and by any diminution in value that might have occurred to the flour through climatic deterioration.

On the return of peace, when no longer valuable for naval purposes, and liable to constant deterioration, they were sold and the money placed in the Treasury.

As a matter of fact, the abnormal powers acquired by gymnasts may be at the cost of constitutional deterioration.

Perhaps in spite of her inevitable deterioration there was that in her still which forbade her going to him as she was.

Certainly the nation has the right to prohibit immigration which produces unassimilated plague-spots and threatens to cause racial deterioration, as in phases of Oriental immigration to the Pacific coast.

Lack of portrayal of character and excess of supernatural incident were causing fiction to suffer severe deterioration.

21 adjectives to describe  deteriorations