vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
vitiated
Example Sentences
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And, especially relevant to Edelman in this case: Is it vitiated by bad motives?
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
The seizure supposedly vitiated his argument for ownership, which was: If the cash is not my money, whose is it?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
“In such a vitiated atmosphere, it’s impossible for me to see Dil Bechara in isolation and gauge it on its own merits,” she wrote in the Film Companion, an online movie magazine.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2020
“ICMR’s intentions may be good but the processes have been vitiated and the risk is it can derail the vaccine,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2020
To-day it is the last, vitiated, further, by false psychological notions about the power and unlimited liberty of the reason, and the consciousness of human individuals, and applied by analogy to the collective reason.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
