How to Use vitiate in a Sentence

vitiate

verb
Definition of vitiatenext
Synonyms for vitiatenext
  • The impact of the film was vitiated by poor acting.
  • One is in bondage either to one’s own will, which inevitably vitiates one’s actions, or to the divine will, which makes them truly good.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Accepting the plaintiffs’ claims in Jesner would vitiate limits that the Supreme Court has imposed on the law.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • They and Trump can be expected to argue that a party-line vote in the House should vitiate the stigma of impeachment.
    — Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Millennials have allied with Gen Z, and managed to vitiate the meme in the process by, basically, overdoing it.
    — Molly Roberts, The Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • This obduracy vitiates Congress’ role in the system of checks and balances, one purpose of which is to restrain rampant presidents.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • But none of that vitiates the correctness of her larger critique of what’s happening on the right-wing media landscape and how that is affecting national politics.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The fact that the three bullets that struck Hernandez were fired from the driver’s side of the car does not alter any of my conclusions and does not vitiate the legal justifications of acting in self-defense or defense of another.
    — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Without question this violates the letter and spirit of the Constitution’s Takings Clause, as well as prior precedent, and vitiates the rights of property owners.
    — WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • Failure to do that can potentially vitiate or at least impair coverage.
    — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • What’s vitiating our politics, in his view, is corruption.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The climate effects of such wanton deforestation will partially vitiate any environmental gains from the collapse in ground and air transport this spring.
    — Troy Vettese, The New Republic, 31 July 2020
  • Regrettably, whatever force Mr. McElheny’s pavilions have is vitiated by the park’s neurosis about the grass.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 29 June 2017
  • Pruitt, however, has issued rules that greatly vitiate TSCA’s ability to monitor and regulate the use of chemicals.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But vitiating dual sovereignty by judicial fiat would reshape America’s legal system in ways that are best left to the political branches.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Although Gansmann essentially vitiated the childhood of a 6-year-old, expression of sympathy to a survivor, decades after the fact, is philosophical and abstract, though well-intentioned.
    — David McGrath, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
  • Every pardon undercuts a prior judicial decision and vitiates a court’s judgment that the defendant violated a criminal statute and ought to be punished.
    — Frank Bowman, Slate Magazine, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Because labor law only governs things like forming a union and organizing for better wages, anything out of that ambit, like going to court as a class, doesn’t vitiate the workers’ individual arbitration agreements.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 21 May 2018
  • Instead, put money into positive programs — head start, mentoring, teacher training – something that doesn’t vitiate the education process.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That would vitiate the executive branch’s coequal status and, when combined with Congress’s impeachment power, establish legislative supremacy—a result the Framers particularly feared.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
  • If the legitimacy of his actions is deemed vitiated by a potentially corrupt intent to impede the investigation, then his communications facilitate a crime and are not privileged.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Progressive commitments to reproductive rights, environmental protections, workers’ rights, racial equality, and so much more are either vindicated or vitiated at the Supreme Court.
    — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
  • By forbidding all comparison, this more expansive meaning is vitiated.
    — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020

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