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taintedadjective containing foreign or lower-grade substancestainted groundwater that is unfit to drink adulterate, adulterated, alloyed, contaminated, dilute, diluted, impure, polluted, thinned, weakened unclarified, unfiltered, unrefinedbefouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, corrupted, debased, defiled, dirtied, fouled, maculate(or maculated), soiled, spoiled, sulliedblended, commingled, incorporated, intermingled, intermixed, merged, mingled, mixedcoalesced, combined, compoundedcheapened, doctored fine, pure, ultrapure, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncontaminated, uncut, undiluted, unmixed, unpolluted, untainted clarified, filtered, purified, refined, ultrarefinedneat, plain, straightconcentrated, stronguncombinedpasteurizedsterile, sterilizedclean, immaculate, spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied taintedverbpast tense of taintto affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirablecriticism of her sister's singing that was tainted by envy a tendency toward conceitedness taints the athlete's status as a role model blemished, darkened, marred, poisoned, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt), stained, tarnished, touched, vitiated begrimed, besmeared, besmirched, blackened, blurred, clouded, dirtied, discolored, polluted, smeared, smirched, smudged, smutted, soiled, sullied, tarredabased, cheapened, debased, degraded, demeaned, discredited, disgraced, dishonored, fouled, lowered, sank(or sunk), shamedbastardized, corrupted, debauched, demoralized, depraved, perverted, subvertedcolored, distorted, twisted cleansed, purifieddignified, elevated, ennobled, enshrined, glorified, hallowed, magnified, uplifted to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirablesmog has long tainted the air of the city, making it difficult to breathe befouled, contaminated, defiled, fouled, poisoned, polluted infectedbegrimed, besmirched, blackened, dirtied, fouled up, grimed, mired, muddied, smirched, smudged, soiled, stained, sulliedcorrupted, rotted, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)adulterated, doctoreddiluted, watered down decontaminated, purified clarified, cleaned, cleansed, cleared, distilled, purgedfiltereddisinfected, sanitized, sterilized in 1577 |