cacogenicadj.
/kakəʊˈdʒɛnɪk/ The reverse of eugenic; = dysgenic adj.
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dysgenic1915
cacogenic1917
eugenicist1925
1917 W. R. Inge in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 80 How will it escape the cacogenic effects of family restriction in the better classes combined with reckless multiplication among the refuse?
1929 R. R. Gates Heredity in Man 280 Out of 399 fertile marriages about 176 might be classed as eugenic matings and 223 as cacogenic.
Derivatives
cacoˈgenics n. (plural) the breeding of a weak race (opposed to eugenics).
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stirpiculture1870
positive eugenics1909
cacogenics1920
dysgenic1920
1920 W. R. Inge in Daily Tel. 28 May 7/2 The new practice of subsidising the unsuccessful by taxes extorted from the industrious was cacogenics erected into a principle.
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adj.1917