Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2003: Vitiate

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary | 10/15/2003 | The Janitor

[VRWCmember]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

vitiate \VIH-shee-ayt\ verb
1. to make faulty or defective; impair
2. to debase in moral or aesthetic status
3. to make ineffective *

* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.

Example sentence: Critics asserted that studies claiming to prove the product safe were vitiated by lack of objectivity on the part of company- hired scientists.

Did you know?
Here's one for word puzzle lovers -- and anyone else allured by alliteration. The sentence "Vivian vituperated the vicious villain for valuing vice over virtue" contains three words that derive from the same Latin root as "vitiate." Can you identify all three? If you picked "vituperate" (a verb meaning "to scold"), "vicious," and "vice," your puzzle prowess is beyond reproach. Like "vitiate," all three descend from the Latin noun "vitium," meaning "fault" or "vice."

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[Laura Earl]

Is anyone other than me bugged by the fact that she doesn't change panties frequently enough? That is just plain nasty!!

[Argh]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Argh. i appreciate that especially coming from you ; )

[Conspiracy Guy]

How about mine.

[tioga]

--reminds me of a certain "blue dress"

[Laura Earl]

Sure, you'll think she's a cutie.

[Laura Earl]

I would have burned that defiled blue dress!

[tioga]

well, you're a lady!

[Conspiracy Guy]

I need make up.

[Laura Earl]

Absolutely!

[Laura Earl]

You are a natural beauty. Hey, I know, you can get your hair highlighted and wear it in crunchy spikes like the guys on General Hospital.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I don't want to look gay.

[Argh]

You're welcome!

[Laura Earl]

That is not possible.

[Conspiracy Guy]

It is not possible for me to not look gay?

[VRWCmember]

In reading the article several times, I don't find where anything gives a timeline as to when the other substances from other sources were contributed. The defense said within three days (it didn't say after so the within three days could be before). I can't find anything that suggests she was having sex after the alleged rape, simply the suggestion that she appears to have worn the same panties during a period where she appears to have had multiple (at least 2) partners - consensual or not. The panties she wore to the hospital the next day are probably the same panties she was wearing at the time of the alleged rape.

Bottom line is this is NOT "compelling evidence of his innocence" as the defense claims, but rather an indication that she probably had a sexual encounter with someone else the same day.

[VRWCmember]

It is not possible for me to not look gay?

Perhaps if you trade in your lezbeene Ranger for a macho Chevy Silverado.

[Laura Earl]

Actually I meant you couldn't possibly look gay. That would be like me looking like a bull dyke.

[Argh]

The life force of the inspiration for James Bond has been completely vitiated. I TOLD the Whyisa it wasn't me...

[VRWCmember]

Is anyone other than me bugged by the fact that she doesn't change panties frequently enough? That is just plain nasty!!

It's enough to inspire you to go commando.

(of course, the sun rising in the east is enough to inspire some people, who will go nameless so as not to embarrass them)