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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    He felt dirty, contaminated, as though he were carrying some deadly germ, unworthy to sit on the Underground train back from the hospital with innocent, clean people whose minds and bodies were free of the taint of Voldemort…  (source)
    taint = spoiling or contaminating effect (that makes something undesirable)
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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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    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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