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taint·ed
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tainted
Synonyms:
adulterated, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, immodest, impure, indecent, indelicate, lewd, mixed, obscene, polluted, stained, sullied, tarnished, unchaste, uncleanAntonyms:
absolute, chaste, classic, classical, clean, clear, continent, genuine, guileless, guiltless, holy, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, mere, perfect, pure, real, sheer, simple, spotless, stainless, true, unadulterated, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, virtuous
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molested
the color red has been molested by the maga crowd.
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3036 | mixed | |
#4253 | gross | |
#4328 | dirty | |
#9718 | foul | |
#10899 | contaminated | |
#11229 | stained | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#17335 | flawed | |
#17868 | corrupted | |
#19040 | crooked | |
#19359 | filthy | |
#19434 | obscene | |
#21090 | imperfect | |
#24646 | tinted | |
#25985 | tainted | |
#26728 | polluted | |
#30442 | indecent | |
#37000 | unclean | |
#42006 | marred | |
#44601 | impure | |
#45987 | lewd | |
#51327 | tarnished | |
#67186 | defiled | |
#77451 | adulterated | |
#116267 | smudged | |
#133218 | immodest | |
#134735 | sullied | |
#155827 | vitiated | |
#230883 | indelicate | |
#265081 | unchaste |
How to use tainted in a sentence?
All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*
A superbug infection can kill not only the patient who was exposed to a tainted duodenoscope but also family members, friends and hospital staff who interacted with the patient.
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
Only the people with a lotta money could afford to buy the pills, so the people without so much money, they couldn't afford to buy the pills. So rather than just walk away from the drug, they switched to heroin. Heroin had gotten better. Heroin had gotten cheaper. Heroin had gotten easier to acquire here in Texas. Andthen the heroin started gettin' tainted with a drug called fentanyl. Not only have we seen an uptick in heroin use, we've seen a marked uptick in deaths due to the tainted heroin.
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