devalued

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

lowered in value

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Examples

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor. Augusto Pinochet

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. Harold Wilson

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. Tony Blair

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. Bruno Bettelheim

The Internet is indeed a technology of freedom - but it can free the powerful to oppress the uninformed, it may lead to the exclusion of the devalued by the conquerors of value. In this general sense, society has not changed much. Manuel Castells

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. David Simon

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