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Princeton's WordNet

  1. corrupt, taintedadjective

    touched by rot or decay

    "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

Wiktionary

  1. taintedadjective

    corrupted or filled with imperfections.

    Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tainted

    of Taint

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  1. Tainted

    Tainted is a 1988 U.S. motion picture written and directed by Orestes Matacena and starring Shari Shattuck. The movie is a low-budget suspense drama about Cathy a young school teacher married to the owner of a crematorium. The movie is centered on Cathy's attempt to cover-up the murder of an intruder who attempted to rape her. The cover up of the rape is due to the man that raped her being her ex-husband in the movie.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tainted in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tainted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of tainted in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Fauci:

    I disagree that her current role has tainted her reputation.

  2. Norbert Lammert:

    I wouldn't have thought it possible that in the 21st Century, a democratically elected president would link his criticism of democratically elected lawmakers in the German Bundestag with doubts about their Turkish descent and describe their blood as tainted.

  3. Steve Roberts:

    They’re morally tainted, i mean, there’s just no question about that.

  4. Lisa Simone Kelly:

    The project has been tainted from the very beginning, clearly, it is not the truth about my mother's life, and everyone now knows that. This is not how you want your loved ones remembered.

  5. Alfonso Cuaron:

    The source material were my memories, but then the film took on its own life, now my memories are tainted by the film.

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