devaluation

Examples of devalued

devalued

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is certainly an asset to be able to play the piano, but this ability is devalued if the teacher is afraid to sing.
Forms that diverge are devalued by the dominant ideologies.
This physicality is often devalued, however, and on many projects skilled professionals can be regarded as little more than unskilled labourers.
Many of these ambiguities of usage were devalued and minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period.
In contrast, audience memory becomes devalued as subjective, inaccessible, and disappearing.
The intellectual currency of colonialism and postcolonialism is becoming as rapidly devalued as that of domination and resistance.
Communal criteria were valued higher than either individual or cognitive performance, with the latter being significantly devalued as an independent value.
Parties that form under democratic competition make specific investments in mass mobilization that would be devalued if democracy were to collapse.
These unique behaviors are thus devalued and viewed with disdain ("dissed").
Nonetheless, the literate skills were consistently devalued in relation to oral communication and transmission of knowledge.
Gal 1993 suggests that in such resistance, devalued practices may be seen as embodying alternate social models of the world.
One teacher felt that you learnt your scales so that you could apply them to repertoire, and that learning them through repertoire devalued the music.
Conversely, those who remain settled may be disempowered, because traditional communities - social organizations gathered in space and developed over time - are devalued.
He had proposed devaluation, the guilder had been devalued, and contrary to popular predictions it had (at least) not been harmful to the economy.
Our findings suggest that elements of retinal circuits do not disappear as their functions are devalued.
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