All 10 Uses
adulterate
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
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- When the children were not well at home, Teta Elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts--and how was she to know that they were all adulterated?
Chpt 7adulterated = corrupted of made less good by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- On one side of the room were the hoppers, into which men shoveled loads of meat and wheelbarrows full of spices; in these great bowls were whirling knives that made two thousand revolutions a minute, and when the meat was ground fine and adulterated with potato flour, and well mixed with water, it was forced to the stuffing machines on the other side of the room.
Chpt 13
- He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product.
Chpt 23adulterate = corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.†
Chpt 23unadulterated = pure or completestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadulterated means not and reverses the meaning of adulterated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- …and the same with any other man or woman who had a means of getting "graft," and was willing to pay over a share of it: the green-goods man and the highwayman, the pickpocket and the sneak thief, and the receiver of stolen goods, the seller of adulterated milk, of stale fruit and diseased meat, the proprietor of unsanitary tenements, the fake doctor and the usurer, the beggar and the "pushcart man," the prize fighter and the professional slugger, the race-track "tout," the procurer,…
Chpt 25adulterated = corrupted of made less good by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- Consider all the waste incidental to the manufacture of cheap qualities of goods, of goods made to sell and deceive the ignorant; consider the wastes of adulteration,--the shoddy clothing, the cotton blankets, the unstable tenements, the ground-cork life-preservers, the adulterated milk, the aniline soda water, the potato-flour sausages--
Chpt 31adulteration = the act of corrupting, debasing, or making impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- Consider all the waste incidental to the manufacture of cheap qualities of goods, of goods made to sell and deceive the ignorant; consider the wastes of adulteration,--the shoddy clothing, the cotton blankets, the unstable tenements, the ground-cork life-preservers, the adulterated milk, the aniline soda water, the potato-flour sausages--
Chpt 31adulterated = corrupted of made less good by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- Of course, imitation and adulteration are the essence of competition--they are but another form of the phrase 'to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.'
Chpt 31adulteration = the act of corrupting, debasing, or making impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- A government official has stated that the nation suffers a loss of a billion and a quarter dollars a year through adulterated foods; which means, of course, not only materials wasted that might have been useful outside of the human stomach, but doctors and nurses for people who would otherwise have been well, and undertakers for the whole human race ten or twenty years before the proper time.
Chpt 31adulterated = corrupted of made less good by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- As no one makes any profit by the sale, there is no longer any stimulus to extravagance, and no misrepresentation; no cheating, no adulteration or imitation, no bribery or 'grafting.'
Chpt 31 *adulteration = lowering the quality of something by adding something else to it
Definitions:
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(1)
(adulterate) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)