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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[xsmommy]

absolutely fascinating piece, WR, thanks!

[P.O.E.]

And check out Neil Cavuto's vitiating rant against the monegrabbers.

[xsmommy]

Take a look at the tax tables, you ingrates. Read the charts, you trough-feeding, social-program pushing pimps. The very boondoggles you hold dear are funded by the so-called ingrates you sneer

i love neil when he is ranting!

[xsmommy]

a new kobe thread~! bound to be a good'un! what's she got in them panties that is gonna exculpate him?

[white rose]

...trough-feeding, social-program pushing pimps...

He's so cute when he's angry.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

She OK now?

Yes, thank you.

[xsmommy]

what every treehugging birkenstockwearing leftwing Falls Church VA woman will be wearing, henceforth....

[xsmommy]

wait! stop the presses! wrong thong!

[Cyber Liberty]

Wood-dood-dood....

[1smallVoice]

The Chinese had broplems with their missile guidance system which vitiated their attempts to use ballistic missiles. Enter Bill Clinton and his 'everythings for sale' adminstration and now they are in space.

Why do you think they are in space? Think about it. Does this prospect make you comfortable?

Thanks, Bill.

[tioga]

Hillary Clinton has spread her version of charm throughout her illustrious career from First Lady in Arkansas, to First Lady in the White House, and on to the Senate. She has been less then forthcoming in depositions or her "tell-all" book, but in her temper tantrums, with ashtrays and lamps flying, she has been heard vitiating.

[hobbes1]

what's she got in them panties that is gonna exculpate him?

Apparently she is carrying more semen than a submarine.

[xsmommy]

is that nice to say?

[hobbes1]

It seems to be accurate.

[xsmommy]

notice the deafening silence on the thread from those that had him strung up and swinging?

[honeygrl]

It appears that a newer AP story is saying that she arrived at the hospital where the rape kit thing was done wearing undies that had someone else's semen in them. They had tested both those undies and the pair she wore the night it happened. The way I read it, that would mean she had sex with some other guy soon AFTER she was supposedly raped. Kinda blows her credibility if it's true. I can't imagine any actual rape victim having sex soon after the rape.

[honeygrl]

rofl!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

If it happened that way I agree - but if she had sex before the alleged rape, I don't see where that makes a difference.... and for the record, I don't give a sh#t either way.......

[xsmommy]

and all those freepers jumping down Pam Mackey's throat for asking whether the injuries were compatible with her having sex with 3 diff men in 3 days. clearly her behavior is not consistent with that of a rape victim. and has not been, throughout this whole thing.

[xsmommy]

it most definitely does make a difference as to whether KOBE was responsible for her physical state as found after the supposed rape, or whether it was a preexisting condition when she started with Kobe. if she were already lacerated and torn, then it would tend to exculpate Kobe of the alleged rape.