adulterator

The London adulterators, in order to keep up that bright red tinge, are in the habit of colouring their cayenne with red lead.

Anon he takes the form of an adulterator of provisions, of various drinkables, of cloth, silk, linen, &c.

So he condemned, in no measured terms, these nefarious adulterators, and would-be peculators.

It is said that some of their laws were sufficiently grim, as for instance that which compelled an adulterator of tin to swallow three spoonfuls of the molten metal.

Even Spanish plays—and Spain can boast of one of the richest springs of dramatic literature in Europe—are comparatively sacred from the desecrating touch of the ruck of contemporary English stage adulterators.