tainted
Americanadjective
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infected, contaminated, corrupted, or spoiled.
An outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to eating tainted ground turkey has resulted in several deaths.
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affected by a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
We strongly urge you to distance your charitable organization from this discredited project and its tainted money.
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(of the name, reputation, etc., of a person or group) sullied or tarnished.
Having such a program available to these students could help fix the tainted reputation many feel our school has earned.
verb
Other Word Forms
- untainted adjective
Etymology
Origin of tainted
Example Sentences
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Research shows that executives are tainted when their companies fail.
While the store’s events are often bursting with energy, those moments are still tainted by an “underlying fear that is kind of like a dark cloud among our community,” Lima said.
From Los Angeles Times
Prosecutors in Paris will seek to establish whether the baby formula producers are liable for distributing a tainted product.
From BBC
The ruling denied the city’s proposal that the court could merely exclude the altered records as evidence, finding the evidence so tainted that a fair trial would not be possible.
From Los Angeles Times
Its business took a hit when it served tainted food that sickened more than 1,100 people in the U.S. from 2015 to 2018.
From Los Angeles Times
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