Tainted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Taint \Taint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tainted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tainting}.]
     To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tainted
       adj 1: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is
              archaic" [syn: {corrupt}]
       2: especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged
          reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished
          reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: {besmirched},
           {damaged}, {flyblown}, {spotted}, {stained}, {sullied}, {tarnished}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "tainted":
     abandoned, bad, bad for, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched,
     blackened, blown, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted,
     darkened, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled, degenerate,
     degraded, depraved, dirtied, discolored, diseased, dissolute,
     drabbled, draggled, foul, fouled, foxed, foxy, frowy, gamy,
     gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, high, impure, indecent, infected,
     injurious, inky, insalubrious, insanitary, maculate,
     morally polluted, morbid, morbific, mortified, murky, noisome,
     noxious, off, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, perverted,
     pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, profligate, rancid, rank, reechy,
     reprobate, rotten, septic, smirched, smoky, smudged, soiled, sour,
     soured, sphacelated, spotted, stained, stale, steeped in iniquity,
     stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, strong, sullied, tarnished,
     turned, ulcerated, ulcerous, unchaste, unclean, unhealthful,
     unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unvirginal, unvirtuous,
     unwholesome, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped