devalued in English

verb

1

reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.

I resent the way people seem to devalue my achievement

synonyms: belittle, depreciate, disparage, denigrate, decry, deprecate, treat lightly, discredit, underrate, undervalue, underestimate, deflate, diminish, trivialize, run down, knock, sell short, put down, badmouth, pooh-pooh, pick holes in

adjective

• debased, degraded

verb

• belittle, depreciate, disparage, denigrate, decry, deprecate, treat lightly, discredit, underrate, undervalue, underestimate, deflate, diminish, trivialize, run down, knock, sell short, put down, badmouth, pooh-pooh, pick holes in
• undervalue, depreciate, devaluate
• devaluate

Use "devalued" in a sentence

1. The currency was devalued 20% overnight.

2. The president has devalued the dollar.

3. Nigeria has just devalued its currency .

4. The currency has devalued at a rapid rate.

5. The government have devalued the currency.

6. 7 Nigeria has just devalued its currency .

7. The pound was devalued against the US dollar.

8. The country devalued its currency by 5 percent.

9. Devalued by 5 percent yesterday before currency speculators attacked it.

10. 24 The country devalued its currency by 5 percent.

11. Last night it was effectively devalued by eight percent.

12. He urged that they be devalued against the dollar.

13. Time has devalued his stature as a play writer.

14. Work in the home is often ignored and devalued.

15. However, Biological anthropology (especially the cranial index) has been devalued.

16. The French government has devalued the franc by 20 percent.

17. India has devalued the Rupee by about eleven per cent.

18. She feels devalued because she knows her husband has had affairs.

19. The government devalued the currency to try to revive the flagging economy.

20. 19 The government devalued the currency to try to revive the flagging economy.

21. It can be of considerable depth and complexity and should not be devalued.

22. It is not only children who are devalued by these policy inconsistencies.

23. Nero devalued the Roman currency for the first time in the Empire's history.

24. The cost of servicing these liabilities would soar if the peso were devalued.

25. We also had with us an immensely heavy steel strongbox which contained enormous quantities of devalued lire.

26. In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves, the government devalued the currency twice.

27. At midnight on Tuesday, he told his share dealers to start buying - confident the pound would be devalued.

28. At the same time the peso was devalued by 600 % and inflation soared over consumers' purchasing power declined.

29. Then they may feel morally devalued and a new standard of behavior can take root: the good of the service.

30. Auteur is one of those words, like diva and masterpiece, that has been devalued to the point of redundancy

31. I think the use of words such as courage and bravery are over used and they have become devalued as a result.

32. True, unemployment has reached a record one-in-ten high, marital splits are up to one-in-three and the pound has been devalued.

33. Have not many individuals “put a little aside” in a savings account for years, only to find that soaring prices and inflated, devalued money have decimated what little they had?

34. Under the terms of this text, an increasingly aggressive form of capitalism will become entrenched, society will be structured along neoliberal lines, everything will be commercialised and people will become increasingly devalued.

35. However, the exchange rate with the Portuguese escudo remained at par, indicating that the earlier Angolan banknotes were devalued as part of the reform, rather than the Angolar actually having a new, higher value