taintedness
- noun
- /ˈteɪntɪdnəs/
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contaminación
- The taintedness of the water forced the town to issue a public health warning.
- hereditary taintedness
Examples
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The taintedness of the company's reputation made customers hesitant to buy its products.
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After the scandal, he struggled to overcome the taintedness associated with his past actions.
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The causal explanation of degeneracy that he most favored was hereditary taintedness in the family pedigree.
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Hereditary taintedness became the basis of the theory of social eugenics and racial purity, which reached its apogee in Hitler's holocaust.
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The concept of hereditary taintedness antedated the rediscovery of Mendelian genetics and was compatible with Lamarckian theory of the inheritance of acquired traits.
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Popularly defined as hereditary weakness or taintedness in the family pedigree, degeneracy was called upon as a causal explanation for perversions of the sexual instinct.
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Synonyms
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6.8
A mark on someone's reputation that makes others respect them less
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A bad reputation that makes people think less of a person or group
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A slow spread of bad behaviour or ways of thinking among people
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A condition where people think badly of someone
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8.8
A state of being dirty and morally bad
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A state of being morally bad because of wrong actions
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Being dishonest and unfair in a way that harms others
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A mark that harms a person's reputation
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A habit of being dishonest and breaking rules to get money or power
Damage to a person's good name by saying untrue things
A loss of respect that makes people think less of someone
A quality of being not respected or trusted by people
The state of being seen as not respectable or having a bad reputation
A bad reputation that makes people think someone is dishonest or shameful
Antonyms
How Contaminated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Taintedness comes from the verb taint, which originally meant a kind of 'stain' or 'tint', like a mark that changes the colour of something. So taintedness is the state of being 'stained' or 'spoiled', whether the water is physically contaminated or a person's reputation is damaged.