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  • Notice that the problem is not just one of establishing that someone is badly off or is in some other disvalued state.

    Concepts of Disease and Health Murphy, Dominic 2008

  • The young John Donne and Parolles in All's Well that Ends Well speak of that particularly valued and disvalued condition in almost the same ironical terms.

    LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

  • This can happen only when local intelligence is degraded and disvalued and when, as a consequence, political responsibility is sold out.

    Energy Bulletin - 2010

  • “higher-order” forms of discrimination in which certain traits, such as speaking style, come to be arbitrarily disvalued on account of their association with a disvalued race or sex (2001).

    Civil Rights Altman, Andrew 2007

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