adulteration

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Adulteration is a bitter truth in the sweet world of honey.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

The great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "Adulteration of intellectual material is as harmful socially as adulteration of food is physiologically."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pedro Rendon applies himself to the Adulteration of Milk; Antonio Pujol to Cereals; Ramon Alva Guardarrama. eldest of the group, to a simple landscape of a Mexican wheat farm, hard and exact in detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adulteration, debasement, and deterioration are always used in the bad sense; admixture is neutral, and may be good or bad; alloy is commonly good in the literal sense.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Adulteration or deception in the sale of dairy products and other food, drink, drugs and medicines.

From Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 by Relations, The Department of Industrial