vitiated
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of Vitiate
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
For nation-building, the first requisite is peace- peace with our neighbours and peace in the world. Our security environment has been vitiated.
All seed except Mary was vitiated [by original sin].
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
All these improvements radiating from Juba, however, have been vitiated by the civil war, in which the roads have been extensively mined by the SPLA and the bridges destroyed, and because roads have not been maintained, they have seriously deteriorated.