dysgenic

Definitions

Examples

• 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.

• A dysgenic feature often found in trades unionism will easily be understood after our discussion of the minimum wage.

• Dysgenic (bad origin), tending to impair the racial qualities of future generations; the opposite of eugenic.