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taintingverbpresent participle of taint to 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 blemishing, darkening, marring, poisoning, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, touching, vitiating begriming, besmearing, besmirching, blackening, blurring, clouding, dirtying, discoloring, polluting, smearing, smirching, smudging, smutting, soiling, sullying, tarringabasing, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, lowering, shaming, sinkingbastardizing, corrupting, debauching, demoralizing, depraving, perverting, subvertingcoloring, distorting, twisting cleansing, purifyingdignifying, elevating, ennobling, enshrining, glorifying, hallowing, magnifying, uplifting 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 befouling, contaminating, defiling, fouling, poisoning, polluting infectingbegriming, besmirching, blackening, dirtying, fouling up, griming, miring, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullyingcorrupting, rotting, spoilingadulterating, doctoringdiluting, watering down decontaminating, purifying clarifying, cleaning, cleansing, clearing, distilling, purgingfilteringdisinfecting, sanitizing, sterilizing |