vitiate

Example Sentences

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“I see these events as a disturbing pattern which will lead, eventually, to injustice and further vitiate the atmosphere prevailing in some parts of the country and stoke fires and retaliation,” Mr. Lokur said.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2021

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2019

He appointed an Attorney General who had successfully fought to vitiate federal prohibitions on the execution of the mentally ill.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2017

The fastidious delicacy of the writers of modern latinity could not endure to vitiate their classical purity by the Gothic names of their heroes, and of the barbarous localities where memorable transactions had occurred.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac