Quotes About Adulterate

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

And, more prosaically, the water shortage had reached the point where milkmen could no longer find clean water with which to adulterate the milk …

I like Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil.

ADULTERATION  (ADULTERA'TION)   n.s.[from adulterate.]1. The act of adulterating or corrupting by foreign mixture; contamination. To make the compound pass for the rich metal simple, is an adulteration, or counterfeiting: but if it be done avowedly, and without disguising, it may be a great saving of the richer metal.Bacon'sNatural History,No 798.2. The state of being adulterated, or contaminated.

We are professionally admonished to freeze many of our ordinary human instincts, to distance ourselves from too much personal knowledge of or contact with the people we write about, lest we endanger our objectivity or adulterate our product with an excess of understanding of their behavior or, God forbid, sympathy.