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Antonyms for tainted

Grammar : Adj
Spell : teynt
Phonetic Transcription : teɪnt

Definition of tainted

Origin :
  • 1570s, "to corrupt, contaminate," also "to touch, tinge, imbue slightly" (1590s), from Middle English teynten "to convict, prove guilty" (late 14c.), partly from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre "to touch upon, seize" (see attainder). Also from Anglo-French teinter "to color, dye" (early 15c.), from Old French teint (12c.), past participle of teindre "to dye, color," from Latin tingere (see tincture). Related: Tainted; tainting.
  • adj spoiled
Example sentences :
  • The Athenians, we may believe, had been tainted by the baseness of their confederates.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • No one can suspect Hogarth to have been tainted by the vices he exposed.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
  • Yet he knew how little the man was tainted with the disease of these others.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Woman » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • But he could keep the army no longer in the tainted air of Jaffa.
  • Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty
  • You know that money gotten that way is tainted money, more or less.
  • Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
  • Again he inhaled deeply the tainted air, and again he opened his eyes.
  • Extract from : « The Yellow Claw » by Sax Rohmer
  • But Mirabeau bore a tainted character, and was always distrusted.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • The soul may be tainted by the flesh: but how the flesh can be soul-tainted, I cannot understand.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 » by Various
  • But I cannot withhold it, even though it has gone down, tainted and dishonored.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams

Synonyms for tainted

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