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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    I must go personally to purify this thunderbolt in the waters of Lemnos, to remove the human taint from its metal.  (source)
    taint = contamination (that makes it less desirable)
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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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    Harry felt contaminated, tainted: Was that really how the Death Eaters had found them?  (source)
    tainted = effected in such a way that he was not desirable
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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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    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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    Heart-weary and soul-withered, you come home after years of voluntary banishment: you make a new acquaintance — how or where no matter: you find in this stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years, and never before encountered; and they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint.  (source)
    taint = anything that spoils them
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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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