#degenerate

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. ↗

— Charles Eames

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