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Examples of taint in a Sentence
criticism of her sister's singing that was tainted by envy
a tendency toward conceitedness taints that athlete's status as a role model
Recent Examples of taint from the Web
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Blakely argues that Avenatti’s comments about his client are tainting a potential jury pool.
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Swann’s husband complained to the hotel management, saying he was concerned about the possibility they were drugged or drank tainted alcohol.
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Even more complication can come if attackers try to use the machine learning system against itself – tainting the data the algorithm learns from to influence its results.
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In fact, many conservatives went out of their way to knock D’Souza for fear that his crass comments would taint their ideology.
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This time the state governing body is pitching a revolutionary new game plan for other team sports, one designed to achieve competitive balance and reduce the blowouts that have tainted some recent state tournaments.
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Some of the officials who worked on the Clinton investigation also worked on the FBI’s Russia probe, but the report did not find that political bias had tainted the Clinton review.
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There was something about his father, Jerry Colangelo, being the team’s chairman of basketball operations when Bryan was hired that tainted his addition to the team.
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But unlike Italy, where the country’s economic stagnation under the euro has become a central issue, the issue in Spain is Mr. Rajoy himself and a long-building corruption scandal that has tainted his conservative Popular Party.
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Synonym Discussion of taint
contaminate, taint, pollute, defile mean to make impure or unclean. contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source.
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- water contaminated by industrial wastes
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- tainted meat
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- a politician's tainted reputation
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- the polluted waters of the river
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- defile a hero's memory with slanderous innuendo
Definition of taint
: a contaminating mark or influence
- the taint of scandal
Examples of taint in a Sentence
that rare political campaign that wasn't marred by the taint of false accusations
Recent Examples of taint from the Web
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That group, known as a taint team, would then do their own review of the remaining materials to determine which were privileged.
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In Vinous, critic Antonio Galloni addresses a question that’s been on all of our minds: Will smoke taint be a major issue in Napa Valley wines from the 2017 vintage?
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There is the taint of stigma and a reticence to talk openly about this kind of reproductive loss.
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Would the taint last for the entirety of his administration?
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These clergy and parishioners dismissed the humanitarian act of rescuing Jews — which was also undeniably political — as a course best avoided by a church that perceived itself above the taint of worldly affairs.
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Under the procedure, the taint team would turn over to the case investigators all the material that is relevant and not covered by attorney-client privilege.
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The judge can also use a special master to do what the taint team would do.
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In their filing on Sunday night, Trump’s lawyers said a taint team won’t be fair to the president.
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First Known Use of taint
1601
taint Synonyms
Near Antonyms
chasteness, chastity, modesty, purity, stainlessness;
honesty, integrity, probity, rectitude, uprightness;
goodness, righteousness, virtuousness;
fame;
Related Words
discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, guilt, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, shame;
corruption, depravity, immorality, iniquity, sin, vice;
TAINT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of taint for English Language Learners
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: to hurt or damage the good condition of (something)
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: to make (something) dangerous or dirty especially by adding something harmful or undesirable to it
taint
Definition of taint for English Language Learners
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: something that causes a person or thing to be thought of as bad, dishonest, etc.
TAINT Defined for Kids
Definition of taint for Students
tainted;
tainting
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: to rot slightly
- tainted meat
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: to affect slightly with something bad
One bad game tainted my reputation as the best.
Law Dictionary
transitive verb
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legal Definition of taint
: to damage or destroy the validity of
- evidence tainted by an illegal search
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