adulterate
verb (used with object)
to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article).
unadulterate
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a word derived from
adulterate.
Example Sentences
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Then if that is how the matter stands, ingratitude would be an instance of pure unadulterate wrongdoing?
From The Memorabilia by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Thy clime is rude, Replete with vapours, and disposes much All hearts to sadness, and none more than mine; Thine unadulterate manners are less soft And plausible than social life requires.
From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William
A breath of unadulterate air, The glimpse of a green pasture, how they cheer The citizen, and brace his languid frame!
From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William
That was while he was still with no very grave misgivings as to the issue of his sickness, and felt the sources of life still springing essentially unadulterate within him.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter
The unadulterate is to be had only by faith in it or by waiting for it.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
