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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
devalue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lowered in value
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Examples
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I suspect the Tea Party crowd believes that the currency of whiteness has been devalued is SET for THIS time – 2009 – and is driven by Whites who used to wear white robes to HIDE who they are ....
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Printing more money to devalue the currency and then insisting that people treat the money as if it had not been devalued is generally a bad idea.
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Patriotism: a word devalued by a million halfwits waving plastic Union Flags, who bought a Piccadilly tourist-shop notion of what their country represented.
Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004
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In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded.
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In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded.
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Borrowers, on their part, are prepared to pay the higher rates of interest because they expect they will pay less now for the goods they buy than they will have to pay if they wait, and they will be able to repay the loans in devalued dollars.
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He was critical of Anne Diamond, the broadcaster, who he described as a "devalued witness", for her version of the full background to The Sun running a picture of her child's coffin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2012
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He was critical of Anne Diamond, the broadcaster, who he described as a "devalued witness", for her version of the full background to The Sun running a picture of her child's coffin.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2012
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Its ludicrous to assert that the government has become 'devalued'.
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Recruit rich white republicunts (carpetbaggers) to swoop in and scoop-up "devalued" (seized from still-exiled owners) properties and change the entire complexion (race, income, politics, everyfuckingthing) of the ENTIRE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA.
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