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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "adulteration" in a sentence

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    adulteration


    1. The adulteration of the standard has exactly the same effect with what the French call an augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin


    2. The adulteration of the standard, on the contrary, has generally been a concealed operation


    3. But a simple augmentation is an injustice of open violence; whereas an adulteration is an injustice of treacherous fraud


    4. He paused, unsure whether the gods in whom he didn’t fully believe would be angered by his adulteration of the traditional words


    5. The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman's hand


    6. It would, as I said at the time, have been just as well to have made it really a trades’ ball, without any adulteration of the gentry; but the hempies alluded to jouked themselves in upon us, and obligated the managers to invite them; and an ill return they made for this discretion and civility, as I have to relate


    7. We cannot, however, expect a full cup and measure of the sweets of life, without some adulteration of the sour and bitter; and it was my lot and fate to prove an experience of this truth, in a sudden and unaccountable falling off from all moral decorum in a person of my brother’s only son, Richard, a lad that was a promise of great ability in his youth


    8. this particular stage of his career: he did not mean to imitate those philanthropic models who make a profit out of poisonous pickles to support themselves while they are exposing adulteration, or hold shares in a gambling-hell that they may have leisure to represent the cause of public morality


    9. —, —, mode of detecting its adulteration with sugar, xiii, 400


    10. , on the adulteration of the green teas of commerce, xlviii, 188

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    Synonyms for "adulteration"

    adulteration debasement taint corruption contamination decay defilement foulness putrefaction

    "adulteration" definitions

    being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating


    the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)