Sample Sentences for
taint
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    "The entire ghetto must be cleaned," one of the Nazis told us. "There must be no taint of Jews left."  (source)
    taint = trace of something undesirable
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    Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.  (source)
    taint = contamination spoiling the air
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    His sword helped taint the throne you sit on, Ned thought, but he did not permit the words to pass his lips.  (source)
    taint = spoil (the reputation)
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    I'm in a dim, chilly cave, my bare feet freezing despite the cover, the air tainted with the unmistakable smell of blood.  (source)
    tainted = contaminated or spoiled
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    How sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay.  (source)
    taint = trace of contamination
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    It was, she knew, the simplest kind of love, the purest form, untainted by Mind, which twisted everything, as Mrs. Shigemura, ironically, had preached.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untainted means not and reverses the meaning of tainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The stench of refuse taints the air.  (source)
    taints = spoils (so it is not as desirable)
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    She won't be tainting perfectly good air by breathing in and out for much longer.  (source)
    tainting = spoiling
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    It was the best meal Lina had had in a very long time—but her enjoyment of it was tainted just a little by the question of where it had come from.  (source)
    tainted = spoiled
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    Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.  (source)
    taint = contamination
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    Lenina nodded her averted head, let out the breath she had been holding and managed to draw another one, relatively untainted.†  (source)
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    What's more, it taints all the evidence in the room!†  (source)
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    Even in death, he selflessly and publicly risked tainting his own legacy so that others might be inspired to seek faith and overcome their own struggles.†  (source)
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