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Definition of "cacogenic" []

  • Of or relating to cacogenesis. (adjective)
  • Tending toward racial deterioration through bad sexual selection. (adjective)

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Use "cacogenic" in a sentence
  • ""Rather than a cacogenic clan or a marginalized crypto-Muslim community," he writes, "the Ishmaels on the Web site appeared to be comfortable, middle-class Americans who got together for annual family picnics.""
  • "A great deal is known about human heredity—enough to make eugenical sterilization a safe policy, provided the standards for sterilization apply only to the most patently degenerate individuals who are definitely demonstrated to be cacogenic."