(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panos Skourletis, spokesman for Syriza, the main opposition party, said: "This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel peace award.
(2) The notion that it might start with another body on another beach seemed preposterous if not a little cheapening of what went before.
(3) Tech culture is even helping cheapen the very concept of sleep, Crary notes: "sleep mode" on your laptop just means it's waiting until it can be productive again.
(4) Why cheapen her by putting her on the face on the 20 dollar bill – the very symbol of the racialized capitalism she was fleeing?
(5) Such a belief would certainly cheapen the memory of the Shoah.
(6) What he's given them isn't something like the Home Run Chase between McGwire and Sosa, which was retroactively cheapened by later revelations or Barry Bonds' quest to beat Hank Aaron's home run record, which was an utterly joyless pursuit even at the time.
(7) There is no way to dehumanise him that doesn't also cheapen our humanity.
(8) You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.” This story was amended on 3 August 2016 to clarify that Adam Kinzinger has not backed Donald Trump.
(9) • Turnover 7th highest in League £129m , down from £130m in 2014 • Income Gate and match-day income £27m; TV and broadcasting £77m; Commercial £25m • Wage bill 17th highest in League £65m , down from £78m in 2014 • Wages as proportion of turnover 50% • Profit before tax £36m , following £19m profit in 2014 • Net debt £81m • Interest payable £0.02m • Highest-paid director Unnamed, £150,000 (Lee Charnley was the managing director) State they are in: These figures are for the year supporters complained that Mike Ashley was running Newcastle as a cheapened flagbearer for his Sports Direct empire, aiming to finish mid-table, sniff at cup runs, and bank TV fortunes.
(10) I’ve cheapened my movie!’.” Or as Brand puts it: “The revolution cannot be boring.” A public feeling economic anxiety , at turns enraged and defeated, might agree.
(11) He had made no attempt to hide his fear that a colour magazine would cheapen the quality of his paper.
(12) The use of UMdex-40 as the main colloid in UW cheapened the solution, equalled the preservation success of UW and UW-plain but surpassed UW-plain in edema prevention, and exceeded UW concerning recovery of graft microcirculation.
(13) Even those favoured groups who are having banknotes waved at them may end up feeling cheapened by this descent into cash-and-carry politics.
(14) In an age of dating apps, transactional “hookups”, digital connection by proxy, do they think we’ve cheapened relationships?
(15) The facts speak for themselves; the adjectives and the sarcasm have the counterintuitive effect of cheapening them, of imposing on the world a disappointingly crude and simplistic argument.
(16) I’ve cheapened my movie!’” “People want to go home and have sex after your movie,” he said.
(17) The rise in unconditional offer making to applicants depresses admissions officers and cheapens our product.
(18) Apples and oranges here, saying otherwise cheapens your own achievement.
(19) But his reaction was instant: “This decision cheapens the prize and more importantly harms the institution of the Nobel Peace award.
(20) A weaker yuan cheapens Chinese exports, shoring up its manufacturing sector.
Debase
Definition:
(a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The borderline group scored significantly higher on the following scales: Disclosure (X), Debasement (Z), Passive-Aggressive (8A), Self-Defeating (8B), Borderline (C), and Major Depression (CC).
(2) I still have the stench of their debasement in my nostrils.
(3) Inevitably, they are not to everyone's taste: educated Mexicans are scandalised by what they see as the debasement of a noble folk tradition, the Catholic Church has denounced corridistas for glorifying the drugs trade, and at least five Mexican states have banned radios from airing the music.
(4) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue.’” Browne added: “The public, whether it’s the NHS or housebuilding, detect that gap, and you will see it now at constituency level with quite debased leaflet-based campaigning about what the parties are going to stop at local level, which is almost completely at odds with the macro-level speeches that the leaders are making up in Westminster.
(5) The impact reaches far beyond the figures inscribed on a Test-match scorebook and debases the credibility of the entire sport.
(6) If the system is to be effective, however, every temptation must be resisted by all involved parties to debase it by using it for self-serving purposes.
(7) But the most debased and vulgar abuse is directed at women, particularly liberal and secular women, and especially women who are not Hindu,” Guha said.
(8) In a society that values women on the basis of their sexuality, a woman who views herself as "debased" may see prostitution as a viable alternative--perhaps the only alternative.
(9) Failing all the above, do they have any worth in the rapidly debasing currency of iconicity?
(10) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(11) A possible cause of these complications may be the debasement of coagulation factors and opsonins in plasma after hepatectomy.
(12) They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.
(13) It's debased and stupefied, really, but that's daily politics."
(14) The progress in prenatal diagnosis and the possibility of replacing risk with security is about to debase the rationale of genetic counseling.
(15) Yet on this issue there appears to be a licence to reject our best scientists both here and abroad and rely instead on much less reliable views.” He has railed against the “dumbing down” of Australian debate in general and the debasing of smart policy for political gain.
(16) While this clown's latest assertion of his alpha-maleness, in debased imitation of Bertram Wooster's misadventures, will undoubtedly add to female consternation about a Drones Club government whose leader insults women and twits his rival for being insufficiently "macho", Mitchell's contribution to the public understanding of hegemonic masculinity also deserves a mention.
(17) A third factor is that currencies are being debased in the developed world, where sovereign debt is at record levels and bearish commentators fear the dollar could slump 20% in the next two years.
(18) Social cohesion is repeatedly challenged by the knowing use of debasing and divisive language, a politics where voters are encouraged to imagine all benefits claimants are scroungers and every migrant as potentially illegal.
(19) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(20) The purpose of these developments however is clear: to debase and disempower Republican Political Prisoners.” The republican prisoners warned: “Those overseeing and implementing these policies would do well to use history as their guide to see where their actions will lead.” In 2012 dissident republicans shot dead a Maghaberry prison officer, David Black , while he drove along a motorway on his way to work at the prison.