cheapener

All they need is a good cheapener to work on them.

Three Cheers for the Cheapeners and Cost-Cutters Matt Ridley 2011

Or one could come to the conclusion that marriage is always going to be what the people who are married decide it is, so there will always be “one more cheapener” in your words being added by someone somewhere.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The elephant in the room: 2007

They are as intelligent as elsewhere, and perhaps more so, for the traveler of to-day is a great cheapener of valuables.

Paul Patoff 1881

And then the thrall-cheapener said that he had bought her of the Red

The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865

She that has once demanded a settlement has allowed the importance of fortune: and when she cannot shew pecuniary merit, why should she think her cheapener obliged to purchase?

The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV 1750

According to instructions given him by his Host, he went the next day into the Horse-market, where he saw very many Horses that he liked, cheapening their prices as he went up and downe, but could fall to no agreement; yet to manifest that he came purposely to buy, and not as a cheapener onely, oftentimes (like a shallow-brainde trader in the world) he shewed his purse of gold before all passengers, never respecting who, or what they were that observed his follie.

The Decameron 2004

Sir Godrick at Eastcheaping) he and two fellows were journeying on the other side of the Sundering Flood, but much higher up, and they came across a thrall-cheapener who said that he had a choice piece of goods if he could but get a price for it, and thereon showed them a damsel as fair as an image, and she was like to what Osberne had told of her.

The Sundering Flood William Morris 1865