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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[VRWCmember]

Just not football mr vast member, puhleeeze. :)

What? You aren't fascinated with the amazing performance of Cowboys coach Bill Parcells and the fact that the Cowboys are leading the NFC East by 2 full games?

[xsmommy]

baseball is worse, IMO, honey!

[VRWCmember]

Excellent. I would give you an A if I had the gradebook. Of course you will need to link a story if you want the "+".

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The seven (eight? nine?? ten???) dwarfs seeking the democrat nomination for president have tried hard to vitiate the effectiveness of Bush’s lightning war on Iraq. Looking at their combined curriculum vitae, it is ludicrous to imagine any of them as Commander-Chief. Our “quagmire” in Iraq (they call it a Viet Nam) is merely reflective of the growing pains of a repressed people. Even non-candidate and great statesman William J. Clinton has chimed in with his critique. The star of the Paula Jones case (Eat It IV) and the Monica Lewinsky Saga (Eat It VI) would do well to quietly disappear, lest it should be brought up that his ineffectual dealings with terrorism were the seeds that enabled 911 to sprout..

[secret garden]

Look for Jerry to up ticket prices.

[xsmommy]

you kill me, truthy!

[secret garden]

Rich Lowry was pushing his book this morning on F&F, which deals with that very subject.

[honeygrl]

What did you say? All I read was "blah blah blah." :)

[honeygrl]

Baseball is atleast just as bad, and may very well be worse!

[Texan5]

Whatsa matta with a real estate seminar? Most of us ladies like it better than a sports seminar.

[Texan5]

Baseball seminar? I'm ready to go back to the real estate and carpentry repair discussion-very informative.

[NeoCaveman]

Must have been some bad vitiate.

Some bad vitiate caused her to regurgatate.

[NeoCaveman]

Now this is straight out of the movie "Naked Gun 2 and 1/2" Mother Teresa: the Musical SMH.

[xsmommy]

i remember the Singing Nun from my youth....

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Wednesday !

Are some browsers formatting FR posts incorrectly?

ah have been noticin' a lot of posts lately thet haf been fo'matted in sho't lines. Th' sentences doesn't hoof it all th' way acrost th' page an' make them difficult t'read, cuss it all t' tarnation.

Is this hyar a gliche in fo'mattin' in some browsers o' is this hyar a noo 'style' of writin' thet is bein' taught in skoo?

ah have cornsulted sevahal varmints about this hyar an' not only is it mighty difficult t'read a post in this hyar fo'mat, but it makes no sense.

Whut in tarnation is th' explainashun of th' sho't sentence fo'mat?

[doubled]

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html


"Self-proclaimed socialist and all-around Hollywood weirdo Ed Asner was asked which historical figure he admired the most and would like to portray one day on the screen. His answer? Joseph Stalin. I'm sure you already know that Stalin killed millions more than did Hitler. Apparently that doesn't present much of a problem to Asner. Asner says "Joe Stalin was a guy who was hugely misunderstood." "

Asner's mind has been vitiated
If his views are as so stated.
Joe misunderstood?
A thug and a hood
Who had millions exterminated.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A subby! Thank you for helping....

Homework:

One is left to wonder whether the dnc's hypocrisy towards the philandering escapades of Kennedy, Clinton, (and practically the whole blasted White House staff!) would be accepted if a republican did it....

Of course not!

They live for (and govern by!) sucking the willing teats of a compliant press corpse.

Or,as they say in latin, "Vitit'eate Emperor!"

[Cyber Liberty]

I dropped by to give you a pass for Miss Slippy. She'll probably be in later.

[white rose]

Greetings.

Right over here, Jill Stewart eviscerates the Los Angeles Times but good. If this doesn't finally vitiate that miserable rag, nothing will.

Hell, they don't even have good coupons on Sundays anymore.

[Robert A Cook PE]

She OK now?