There were always the gay and silly sensual young girls that Yossarian had found and brought there and those that the sleepy enlisted men returning to Pianosa after their own exhausting seven-day debauch had brought there.
But the Devil had met with too much Success in his first Attempts, not to go on with his general Resolution of debauching the Minds of Men, and bringing them off from God.
puhekieltä To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
2014 March 23, w:Peter Hitchens|Peter Hitchens, "http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/usa/ Peter Hitchens's Blog: 23 March 2014 1:41 AM," The Mail on Sunday (UK) (retrieved 18 April 2014):
Saving of all kinds is pointless when interest is microscopic and state-sponsored inflation is debauching the currency.