Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tainted
IPA transcription: [t'eɪntɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: corrupt, tainted
    Meaning: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
Usage examples
  • I wonder how he inherited such a tainted nature."
  • "I dare say it is all nonsense," said Mrs. Sefton slowly, "but if you had lived a whole year in the same house with Miriam Gordon, you would have been tainted too.
  • He implored his son never to return to Costaguana, never to claim any part of his inheritance there, because it was tainted by the infamous Concession; never to touch it, never to approach it, to forget that America existed, and pursue a mercantile career in Europe.
  • Such people were, for the most part, merely on the ragged edge of the white world, seldom rising above the level of overseers, or slave-catchers, or sheriff's officers, who could usually be relied upon to resent the drop of black blood that tainted them, and with the zeal of the proselyte to visit their hatred of it upon the unfortunate blacks that fell into their hands.