Sentence examples for were vitiated from inspiring English sources
verb
To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something
A dauntless soldier, he was tolerant in religion and was normally humane and humble, but these traits were vitiated at times by cruelty sometimes approaching the inhuman.
For the dance "Phased," the guitarist Nate Brown played Villa-Lobos, but the pleasures of live music were vitiated by a choreographic response that didn't go much beyond some Spanish posturing for Mr. Cornejo, a ballet star from Argentina.
Idealism seems to be vitiated the moment it is translated into (usually misguided) action.
Autonomy is vitiated by the wholesale invasion of secrecy and privacy.
But its power is vitiated by a manner of presentation more political than theatrical.
See how education was vitiated, how the public sector grew depraved!
They suggested some of the usual rules of evidence might be relaxed, but not be vitiated.
Despite ingenuity in argument and resourcefulness of language, the section is vitiated by inconsistencies.
If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated.
"Family Matters" has a nervous pulse; its Tolstoyan qualities, its ease and affection, are vitiated by a modernist jumpiness.
"This great institution is going to be vitiated by the intrusion of a political agenda," he said.
