vitiate

Object

• proceeding: It vitiated the proceedings ( ibid, Lord Justice General Clyde at p 86 ).
• air: We were angry and hasty because we stifled in the darkness, in a poisoned and vitiated air.
• contract: A mistake of fact in some circumstances could vitiate the contract.
• decision: They vitiated the decision not to offer any assistance in advance of the road having been built and in use for a year.
• exercise: A clear failure to observe such proportionality will vitiate the resultant exercise of discretion whether to make either such order.
• process: Both suffer from two major flaws which appear to have the effect of vitiating the whole process.

Subject

• fact: Minority group analogies are vitiated by the fact that we are not a minority.
• defect: All such performances are vitiated by the inherent defect of making the first move toward reconciliation come from our side.

Preposition: by

• fact: Minority group analogies are vitiated by the fact that we are not a minority.
• defect: All such performances are vitiated by the inherent defect of making the first move toward reconciliation come from our side.

Modifying Another Word

• not: In these circumstances the decision of the Tribunal was not vitiated.
• somewhat: Authentic Soho Italiana, but the atmosphere is somewhat vitiated by the large projection TV.
• largely: This method of treating the Psalter has largely vitiated modern criticism 10 A. C. Welch, op. cit. , pp.
• entirely: Equally, tho, he does not agree that the best of the old world has thereby been entirely vitiated.
• thus: Kripke's account of the private language argument is thus vitiated by his unargued reliance on ideas which Wittgenstein argued against.