But the police arrested 30 men, and 92 women and girls "of the most degraded and homely description."

Once a rural town, Vaiano Valle depopulated in the 20th century, and it is now one of the most degraded rural areas within Milan.

If they did not attempt to defeat this policy "we become politically the most degraded population in Europe and no longer worthy of the name of Nation ."

The sleek, polished Lord Vorkosigan he'd last seen looking back at him before the embassy reception has been transmuted, werewolf-wise, into a most degraded little monster.

They omit to add that superstition, often of the most degraded kind, is just as universal.

This made Bush one of the most degraded and servile U.S. officials of the era.

It is also among the most degraded and threatened concentrations of mussels, containing some species that are globally unique.

"The artist must taste all experience from the noblest to the most degraded," Mr. Coetzee writes.

Here, the most degraded human sentiment seemed to be the inclination to trust, broken by so many years of state-sponsored betrayal.

Whereupon one of the most degraded- looking men stepped out of the line and hoisted him in.