0 to spoil something or give it an unpleasant quality:
His reputation was permanently tainted by the financial scandal.
1 the act or result of spoiling something or giving it an unpleasant quality:
2 to damage the quality, taste, or value of something:
Bacteria had tainted the meat.
His reputation was permanently tainted by the scandal.
We don't want people out there tainting our reputation.
It was found that the groundwater had been tainted with a string of toxins.
People caught with less than an ounce of marijuana might avoid the taint of a criminal record.
As deaths among those taking the drug mounted, the FDA discovered the taint and banned the contaminated drug.
On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy.
Released from its own taint, prenatal testing could more effectively facilitate women's reproductive freedom and the many important ways that freedom ramifies through women's lives.
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