Word: cheapened
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...Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were an award for that book which does the least to bootlick or otherwise seduce the reader and to cheapen its own contents, The Long Week End would be an admirable candidate...
...necessary to cheapen the appearance of the outstanding newsmagazine in America...
...Roosevelt is the first U. S. President in modern times to speak really fluent French, and both his mother and his wife share his feelings for La Patrie. Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French...
There is no necessity to cheapen the cause by serialized articles on "Was Kindergarten Worth While?" but to the dignity of a rational report should be added some common denominator which will draw the sympathy and understanding of the taxpayers who ultimately must endorse any major scholarship program. The public can follow a logical argument, but it is sometimes shaky on the long words...
Honorary degrees, carelessly awarded and worn by men of small abilities can do nothing but cheapen the university that gives them. While the tawdy publicity-hunting described by Tunis does not motivate Harvard, this university has had its part in the movement which has made of honorary degrees an insincere and meaningless farce...