vitiate

Example Sentences

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She accused Mr Zubair of "peddling a fake-narrative to vitiate the atmosphere, cause communal disharmony & cause communal & targeted hatred against me & my family".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2022

“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

Millennials have allied with Gen Z, and managed to vitiate the meme in the process by, basically, overdoing it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2019

He attempted to vitiate the old ballads as well as Shakespeare, and perhaps even now his evil influence in retarding the progress of sound scholarship is not wholly annulled.Mrs.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh