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(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (verb) to debase in moral or aesthetic status / (verb) to make ineffective

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vitiated
vitiate
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these do not vitiate his entire later critical work

—p.89 The literary criticism of Georg Lukács (82) by Susan Sontag
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withdraw their submission to a government they believe has vitiated the contract’s terms

—p.75 Know Your Rights (71) by Natasha Lennard
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the sort of magical compression that enriches instead of vitiates

—p.310 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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Bourdieu’s attempt to explain habitus as a result of class is thus vitiated by a basic conceptual weakness.

—p.114 Bourdieu's Class Theory: The Academic as Revolutionary (107) by Dylan Riley
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These factors had a vitiating effect on the BDLB, which eventually saw a slow dismantling of the protective schemes for workers.

why do i always think this word means the opposite.

—p.133 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai (129) by Johnson Abhishek Minz
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They described the Culture Industry not merely as political economy, but as a specific spatiality that vitiated the classical proportions of European urbanity

—p.46 Sunshine or Noir? (13) by Mike Davis
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a writer whose work was vitiated by ego

—p.49 On Reading Updike (48) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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Simmel's writings, for example, are all vitiated by the incompatibility of their out-of-the-ordinary subject matter with its painfully lucid treatment

—p.80 Part One (21) by Theodor W. Adorno
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What is vitiated in the Tour is the basis, the economic motives, the ultimate profit of the ordeal, generator of ideological alibis.

—p.130 The Tour de France as Epic (122) by Roland Barthes
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Athenian democracy, vitiated by slavery and the exclusion of women, was a fraudulent irrelevance, which Madison rightly rejected as mob rule, to be avoided at all costs in the nascent United States

—p.127 Metaphysicking the West (125) by Dylan Riley
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the symbolic force of Clinton’s campaign was vitiated by its political timidity

—p.74 Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election (61) by Benjamin Kunkel
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As time went on and the shadow of fool-made history vitiated even the exactitude of sundials, we moved more restlessly over Europe

—p.306 by Vladimir Nabokov
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While neoliberals were vitiating the regulatory state’s ability to expose (or even understand) rapidly changing business practices,

—p.13 Introduction—The Need to Know (1) by Frank Pasquale
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By making alliances with the old social classes and adopting the colonial bureaucratic structure, the new nations essentially vitiated the Third World agenda.

—p.203 Arusha (191) by Vijay Prashad
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In the case of VW, the company’s neutrality may have vitiated the effect of such tactics, but that did not prevent others from engaging in them.

—p.11 Preface: Union Defeat at Volkswagen (7) by Stanley Aronowitz
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this evaluation does not vitiate the need for these adaptive reforms

—p.152 Toward a New Labor Movement, Part One (135) by Stanley Aronowitz
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‘There is the great mistake’ – weavers, who wove cloth when they themselves were in rags, were forcibly educated in the vitiating error of the orthodox political economy.

—p.298 The Weavers (269) by E.P. Thompson
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This was not Marx’s meaning, in his own historical writing, yet the error vitiates much latter-day ‘Marxist’ writing

—p.10 Preface (9) by E.P. Thompson
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The good that I try to do will be vitiated at the roots

—p.212 Situation of the Writer in 1947 (128) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Wong’s features have not vitiated to the level of MTV because of the contexts they invoke: their historical nexus with past eras, their identification with the times, their interconnectedness of the local with the global, and, above all, their depth of meaning and feeling.

—p.158 Mini-Projects and Conclusion (153) by Stephen Teo
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