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8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for DYSGENIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

causing the deterioration of hereditary qualities
exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics
pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced
referring to the degeneration of a race or strain

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of, relating to, or contributing to a degeneration or deterioration in the fitness and quality of a race or strain

Words that contain DYSGENIC

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How to use DYSGENIC in a sentence

The effect of maternity endowments and maternity centers supported by private philanthropy would have, perhaps already have had, exactly the most dysgenic tendency.
But in spite of all this, ill-assorted, dysgenic marriages will still be made.
In extreme cases, it would be proper for society to take adequate steps to insure that the dysgenic party could neither remarry nor have offspring outside marriage.
As these same races fight with pertinacity, there is a high mortality rate, so that the dysgenic result of these wars is particularly deplorable.
If such were the case, the measures referred to, despite the euthenic considerations, must be classified as dysgenic.
Therefore, in so far as it would encourage men of inferior quality to have or increase families, it is unquestionably dysgenic.
This discrimination of some apartment owners against families with children would therefore appear to be dysgenic in its effect.
TRADES UNIONISM A dysgenic feature often found in trades unionism will easily be understood after our discussion of the minimum wage.
PROHIBITION It was shown in Chapter II that the attempt to ban alcoholic beverages on the ground of direct dysgenic effect is based on dubious evidence.
There is no room in the civilized world now for a dysgenic religion.

They are intensely dysgenic in their operation, for they cripple and at last eliminate just those stocks which have shown themselves to be above the average in ability.

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