tainting
Meaning
of Taint
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
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Examples
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
A longtime Boehner ally, he called his friend and, according to a person familiar with the conversation, told him he was potentially tainting the investigation.
“Belfort is significantly damaged by Red Granite’s tainting of his book/story rights, coupled with Red Granite’s inability and/or refusal to exploit and maximise the rights acquired from Belfort … due to the highly publicised scandal.”
Practical Guilt: Moral Dilemmas, Emotions, and Social Norms it is the staining or tainting of oneself and therefore having to self cleanse away the filth.
Or, for astronomical IAU boundaries, "Sadly, capsized, aqueous pollutants are tainting good crabs leaving via liberally scorched Oregon" starts with Sagittarius in January and includes Ophiuchus in December.
If it’s supposed to not have been conquered — which means that advancement has happened without colonialism tainting it, poisoning the well of it, without stopping it or disrupting it — then there’s no way he would speak with a European accent.”