Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
degenerazione dei costumi
English translation:
the decline of morals
Italian term
degenerazione dei costumi
May 13, 2008 12:18: Olga Buongiorno changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/54450">Pnina's</a> old entry - "degenerazione dei costumi"" to ""the decline of morals""
Proposed translations
Italy
Let's translate!
Native in: Italian 
, English
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, French to Italian
the decline of morals
Molte le occorrenze sul web.
the degeneration of morals
nf
1.1 degeneracy, degeneration
• degenerazione morale moral degeneration
1.2 (= perversione) perversion, perverseness, perversity
• degenerazione del gusto perversion of taste
2 (= peggioramento) decay, worsening, deterioration, degeneration
• **la degenerazione dei costumi the degeneration of morals***
3 (med, biol) degeneration
• degenerazione grassa fatty degeneration
4 (mat, fis) degeneracy.
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the moral degeneration, too.
the degeneration of usages
Egypt
Never lost for words!
Native in: Arabic
Works in: English to Arabic, Arabic to English, Italian to Arabic, and 4 more.
Ethical deterioration
Either addiction leads inevitably to ethical deterioration, > or it doesn't. ... Many cases are interrupted before observable ethical deterioration ensues
Everywhere we turn today there are signs of ethical deterioration. In ... of ethical deterioration which, in most cases, originate from this vice of greed.
http://listserv.kent.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9802c&L=addict-l&T=0&P=33321
http://vlib.unitarklj1.edu.my/staff-publications/datuk/Nst10jul93.pdf
Italy
translating meaning, not just words
Native in: English 
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, English
Breakdown/Disintegration in/of the moral fabric of society
Longer but probably explains this better. You can apply this also to the term family and not apply a separate adjective to avoid making the sentence too long
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=Disintegration of the mo...
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=Breakdown in the moral f...
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of course, you can leave out "society"
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=Breakdown moral fabric&b...
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=Disintegration moral fab...
Switzerland
Professional, reliable, always on time
Native in: Italian
Works in: English to Italian, French to Italian, Italian to English, and 1 more.
moral decay/decline/degeneration/wreckage
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I forgot "moral corruption".
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texjax DDS PhD
: forse per deformazione professionale..ma moral decay la trovo una splendida soluzione :)
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Mentre la scrivevo infatti mi sei venuta in mente tu ;-)
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Eike Seemann DipTrans
: firmly, but only with 1 of the 5 ;-) , 'moral decline'
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Thank you anyway ;-)
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