tainted

Speech parts

1. tainted - Adjective

2. tainted - Verb

4. tainted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Taint

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

corrupt impure contaminated corky saline rotten rancid mixed bad rank evil contamination spotted suspicious foul
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Antonyms

virgin immaculate white good great bactericidal
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Phrases with the word

tainted money tainted wealth become tainted

Examples

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. Newt Gingrich

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. Azar Nafisi

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten. Carl Sagan

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. Henry David Thoreau

Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

tainoceratid taint taintable tainted money tainted wealth taintedness