Crossword clues for cheapened
cheapened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheapen \Cheap"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheapened; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening.] [OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ce['a]pian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaup[=o]n to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain.]
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To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
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[Cf. Cheap, a.] To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
--Pope.My proffered love has cheapened me.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: cheapen)
Usage examples of "cheapened".
Why a grown-up young woman allowed herself to be cheapened in the way so many of them do by the use of names which become them as well as the frock of a ten-year-old schoolgirl would become a graduate of the Corinna Institute, the old postmaster could not guess.
If I can scrape together fifteen thousand goldpieces, even cheapened ones.
Against the hyperinflation of death that has cheapened all life, it is salutary to return to the physics, to remind ourselves about nuclear scale.
It assaulted my sense of morality, I believed (and still do), and cheapened so many things that I hold precious.
Had I allowed myself to be carried away with the mood of the graduation ceremony of Melee-Magthere, had I allowed myself the sensual pleasures offered by the priestesses, how cheapened might any honest encounter of love have been?
They overdid flattery, which she was used to and tolerated, but which cheapened the admirer in her estimation, and now and then betrayed her into an expression which made him aware of the fact, and was a discouragement to aggressive amiability.
His coinage was cheapened even beyond the lows set by pre vious bureaucratic Emperors.
But Scaurus knew the Vaspurakaner mines from which Thorisin had taken that gold were now in Yezda hands, and wondered how long it would be before the currency was cheapened again.