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To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. (more info) to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupon to trade. 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer

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To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden. (more info) to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupon to trade. 1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift. 2. Etym:

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  • TRADUCENT
    Slanderous. Entick.
  • DEFAMER
    One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
  • TRADUCEMENT
    The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
  • DEBASED
    Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
  • SLANDER
    Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
  • DECRY
    To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried
  • VILIFY
    1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and
  • DETERIORATE
    To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey. (more info) deteriorate, fr. deterior worse, prob. a comparative fr. de down,
  • DEGRADEMENT
    Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
  • SPOILER
    1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
  • TRADUCE
    as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2.
  • SPOILSMAN
    One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
  • SPOILABLE
    Capable of being spoiled.
  • ASPERSER
    One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
  • DEGRADE
    To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
  • ABUSE
    1. Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty,
  • SLANDERER
    One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
  • ABUSER
    One who abuses .
  • SPOILSMONGER
    One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
  • ISLANDER
    An inhabitant of an island.
  • SPOIL
    1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
  • SELF-ABUSE
    1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
  • DESPOIL
    despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed
  • DEFAME
    fr. L. diffamare ; dis- (in this word 1. To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse. 2. To render infamous; to bring into

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