tainted
- adjective
- /ˈteɪntɪd/
- And, you know, as a chef, it's like when the ingredients are tainted, you can't just pour salt in it and make it better.
But this feels kind of tainted now, doesn't it?
- But this feels kind of tainted now, doesn't it?
- Because UFOs, you know, again, has been completely tainted by this stuff.
- So obviously now memories of this series are a little tainted.
- So then the answer they often come to is work itself is tainted.
- It's like if, if, if those people vote for them, they're evil and tainted.
- And by me being kept away from that, it allowed me to not be tainted by it.
- And I guess you just have to wonder, are all those, would those philosophies also be tainted if he had gone bad?
- But when you go through some sort of trauma like that, the soul's always going to be tainted.
- Store bought meat can be tainted with scary bacteria and has ghoulish inflated prices.
- Store bought meat can be tainted with scary bacteria and with ghoulish inflated prices.
- There has to be a balance between wisdom, knowledge, discernment and not being tainted, bitter and just cold hearted because you've been hurt.
- Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans through the fact of birth, inherit A tainted nature in need of regeneration.
- I I think it's too, it's too far gone now, tainted.
- It stinks, you know, and it's not the perpetrator of it who's tainted, it's the victim who's tainted.
Examples
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Store bought meat can be tainted with scary bacteria and has ghoulish inflated prices.
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I can choose whether I drink, you know, tainted water.
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The meat was tainted and all of the alphas in that troop of baboons died.
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You cannot be tainted by corporeal matters if you're going to attain to and actually focus on eternal truths, right?
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The restaurant was forced to close because it served tainted food that made customers sick.
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Drinking tainted water can lead to serious health problems, so always check the source before consuming.
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The fruit was tainted by mold, making it unsafe to eat.
Synonyms
Gone bad and no longer good to eat or use
Not morally clean because it is corrupt or obscene
Rotting and smelling very bad
Dirty and covered in dust, food, or grease
Food that is no longer safe to eat because it has gone bad
Damaged by decay so it is no longer safe or useful
Something like wood, teeth, or food that is soft and broken because it has rotted
Badly damaged so it cannot be fixed or returned to how it was before
Something that becomes unsafe because it touches something dirty or harmful
Less pure because cheaper or wrong ingredients are added
Dishonest and morally ruined because of wrong actions
Made worse in quality, value, or moral standards
Made morally dirty, especially a place or thing people respect
Dirty and polluted with waste or unwanted material
Not safe to use because dangerous chemicals are in the air, water, or soil
Having a mark or fault that makes it look worse
Turned unpleasant, like milk that went bad or a friendship that ended
Antonyms
How Contaminated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tainted comes from an old idea of 'color' and 'stain', from the Latin root tingere meaning 'to dye', and is like the English word tint. So when something is tainted it is 'stained' or spoiled and no longer pure.