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tainted

[teynt]

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noun

a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.

a trace of infection, contamination, or the like.

a trace of dishonor or discredit.

Obsolete. color; tint.

verb (used with object)

to modify by or as if by a trace of something offensive or deleterious.

to infect, contaminate, corrupt, or spoil.

to sully or tarnish (a person's name, reputation, etc.).

Obsolete. to color or tint.

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verb (used without object)

to become tainted; spoil.

Origin:
1325–75; conflation of Middle English taynt, aphetic variant of attaint struck, attainted, past participle of attainten to attaint; late Middle English taynt hue, tint < Anglo-French teint (< Latin tinctus, equivalent to ting(ere) to dye, tinge + -tus suffix of v. action); and teinte < Late Latin tincta inked stroke, noun use of feminine of past participle of tingere

Related forms

un·taint·ed, adjective

un·taint·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. defect, spot, flaw, fault. 1, 7. blemish, stain. 6. defile, pollute, poison.

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The majority were caused by tainted meat or dairy products.

But the groups have been tainted with some scandals because their approval is a requirement for receiving federal student aid.

Contaminated water drains into sewers and tainted soil sits piled under tarpaulins.

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The majority were caused by tainted meat or dairy products.

But the groups have been tainted with some scandals because their approval is a requirement for receiving federal student aid.

Contaminated water drains into sewers and tainted soil sits piled under tarpaulins.

With their soft skin, dolphins can also experience skin irritation from the oil, and eating tainted fish could poison the mammals.

Those facts are so tainted by special interest groups on both sides of this, that the truth may never be readily available.

Contador has claimed that the drug came from eating tainted filet mignon on the day before the failed test.

The company has blamed suppliers for providing tainted milk.

It is ironic that a practice that has tainted the entire clinical-trial literature has been tolerated during this era.

We've all seen the stories about the tainted milk scandal and how poorly it was handled all round.

Within the next ten years half the rodents and insects in the tainted areas will die.

I've felt for years that biology is harmfully tainted by religious origins.

Then they have to keep it from becoming tainted by other genetic material.

They attribute a nationwide outbreak last year of salmonellosis, usually caused by tainted food, to tainted marijuana.

The decision represents a rare move for a university that received gifts tainted by criminal wrongdoing.

It is one of several structures too tainted to enter and, for the moment, too expensive to tear down.

It is caused by a virus transmitted through drinking water tainted with fecal matter or through saliva.

Then and now, any science that is tainted with blind belief will lead us astray.

Paper money is almost always tainted with drug residue.

Nobody should trust research tainted by tobacco money.

The opposition has also been tainted by grubby funding scandals.

Then the operator has to dispose of the water, often tainted with elevated levels of salinity.

They can become airborne again as people walk around in a tainted room.

But the evidence on the devices can be easily lost or tainted.

Something less tainted by personal ambition or ignorance.

Coca-Cola, which had to make the largest product recall in its history, blamed tainted carbon dioxide and fungicide.

Deng's outrage would inspire more sympathy if his own forces weren't so morally tainted.

Pushy parents are everywhere, it seems, and childhood tainted.

Tainted by past blunders, the modern-day industry struggles to reconcile high stakes economics with sound environmental practices.

The green revolution's legacy of tainted soil and depleted aquifers is one reason to look for new strategies.

Syria is positioning itself to play a key role as it struggles to emerge from a past tainted by dictatorship and internal strife.

Insiders say kickbacks and payoffs have tainted both the industry and the professors who profit.

Kudos to the scientific community for feeding the national media rats another tainted block of cheese.

Not everyone will become ill from eating meat tainted with.

The party, which has always cultivated a reputation for ethical cleanliness, is suddenly tainted by scandal.

The first conclusive evidence comes from spearheads tainted with the residue of horse protein.

The statement implies, without quite saying explicitly, that some of the studies were tainted by left-wing biases.

First, in the continent that created the debtor's prison, insolvency is still tainted with moral failure.

He was involved, you may remember from last year, there was the unfortunate scandal involving tainted heparin.

It is possible that this man could have ingested tainted seawater.

Most studies were tainted by the failure to distinguish between kinds of prayer and target of prayer.

His government was tainted by the minor scandals that tend to beset ageing administrations.

Stained with pollution, tainted with sewage, crowded with ill-conceived.

It appears the scientific community does not even care the data is tainted.

The best part is that each ant who ate the tainted rice produced a mushroom that produced millions of spores.

And my sister's experiences probably tainted my outlook.

But other endangered species in the wild might not be so lucky if they encountered similarly tainted food.

It will be difficult to nurture global leaders as long as our children are tainted by racial prejudice.

Politics is a dicy game and more tainted and intriguing the prospect better are the chances in a democracy.

If a doctor got money from a company, that was enough to disqualify their findings as tainted.

Ebola spreads via bodily fluids or tainted needles and razors, and it's highly contagious.

As a result, fans are beginning to turn away in disgust, fed up with tainted athletes and distorted games.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the climate science has been tainted in the public view.

Amazing the extent of the tainted milk crisis there.

Oil is thought to affect marine animals through inhalation or direct and indirect ingestion-for example, by eating tainted fish.

On either side are rice fields, healthy here but tainted by salinity farther south.

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Word Origin & History

taint

1570s, "to corrupt, contaminate," also "to trouch, tinge, imbue slightly" (1590s), from M.E. teynten "to convict, prove guilty" (late 14c.), partly from O.Fr. ataint, pp. of ataindre "to touch upon, seize" (see attainder). Also from Anglo-Fr. teinter "to color, dye" (early

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15c.), from O.Fr. teint (12c.), pp. of teindre "to dye, color," from L. tingere (see tincture).

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Slang Dictionary

gooch definition

and grundle; taint

n.
the perineum. (Crude. See also choad. The taint reflects that this area is not [it ain't = 'taint] genital nor anus.) : I got a horrible itch in the gooch! , She did what to your taint?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"If the accumulated wealth of the past generations is thus tainted,—no matter how much of it is offered to us,—we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it, and to put ourselves in primary relations with the soil and nature, and abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part, with his own hands, in the manual labor of the world."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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