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taint
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Her father's tainted money had bought the car, too, and bought Mr. Corrigan's services.†
p. 197.9 *

tainted = spoiled or contaminated
Everything we have is tainted!†
p. 200.3
But they're tainted, remember?†
p. 221.9
The Jane who'd stalked out of her father's house nine months ago would have sniffed and sneered and lectured him about tainted money and tainted clothes.†
p. 261.5
The Jane who'd stalked out of her father's house nine months ago would have sniffed and sneered and lectured him about tainted money and tainted clothes.†
p. 261.5

Definitions:

(1) (taint)
to spoil something so it is not desirable -- as when bacteria contaminates a food; or as when a rumor makes people distrust a person
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, taint is used in a non-negative way to refer to a trace of something.