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: --
His reputation was permanently tainted by the scandal.
Bacteria had tainted the meat.
The feeling that all doubtful subjects were tainted by association with each other was very strong among scientists.
There's also as construct to convert tainted data to un-tainted form so that dangerous functions can be used on it.
If this is the case, the shareholders' (pensioners) consent to rules voted by pension fund managers is ' tainted ' by a conflict of interest.
All art in the novel, including this phase of charitable art, is tainted by its association with treacherous fashionable society.
Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.
First, there were those who considered children to be 'little devils', tainted by original sin.
No hint of dishonesty, let alone criminality, had ever tainted the family.
They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted by retrospection.
