taint
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7.5
- noun
- /teɪnt/
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mancha
- After the investigation, the company worked hard to eliminate any taint of corruption from its practices.
- avoid the taint
- hereditary taint
- taint lingers
She is nearly septic with the taint of our earthly world.
- She is nearly septic with the taint of our earthly world.
- Because jealousy, it's an evil taint, isn't it?
- OK, so I might say, are you getting a little a little boar taint?
- So it's really the Holocaust and then suburbanization that took away the racial taint.
Examples
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How could she avoid the taint of anti-Semitism in a country known for its hatred of Jews?
Academic text (2016) -
Roosevelt's progressive regulations offer a model for escaping the taint of corruption and capturing the hearts of the working class.
Academic text (2002) -
Do we see him making decisions free from the taint of error?
Fiction book (1992) -
Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.
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Fresh and healthy, without soil or taint.
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You're expected to keep your life free of any taint of scandal.
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The taint of unholy fury has been absorbed by every particle of this place.
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All the assurances of "informed consent" in the world can hardly cover the taint of science run amok here.
Academic text (2003) -
Indeed, the Hippocratic physician shunned claims of supernatural powers in order to avoid the taint of charlatanism.
Academic text (1994) -
Menca's supposedly illicit relationship with Don Enrique is the taint of impurity that has infected Don Gutierre's reputation.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Substance that makes things unclean
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4.8
Harmful things that make food, water, or places unsafe
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4.3
Something, often a chemical, that makes water, air or soil dirty and harmful
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6.1
Something that makes water, soil or food unsafe
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7.5
Something that damages a person's good name
Antonyms
How Contaminated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Taint comes from an old Latin root tingere meaning 'to dye' and reached English through Old French, so it is like the common word tint. A taint is therefore a small 'stain' or trace that makes something impure or spoiled.