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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.

ChatGPT

  1. tainted

    Tainted refers to something that is contaminated, polluted, corrupted, or spoiled in some way, making it impure or unfit for use. This could apply to various things including food, water, air, reputation, data, or evidence.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tainted

    of Taint

Wikidata

  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. 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.

  2. Louis Bravo:

    What's hard to grasp is that nothing is the same. ... You, your spouse, kids, house, bills, schools, job, interaction skills, emotions are all tainted and jumbled up in what's left of your brain.

  3. Jennifer Bates:

    The mailbox is the symbol of Amazon's abuse of power. Many of my coworkers don't even trust the mail ballot process because of how much Amazon tainted the process during the first election.

  4. Louis Pasteur:

    Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

  5. James McGregor:

    Because of the lives they have led - of tainted food, dumplings with cardboard in them, honey that isn't honey, liquor that isn't liquor - they distrust everything.

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