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adj. Becoming less and less; diminishing.
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adj. music
adj. becoming less or smaller
Word Usage
"In an e-mail message on Friday to the bar's membership, its president, Robert J. Grey Jr., said lawyers and others who work with the law needed to respond to what he described as decreasing respect for the courts."