Taint is an English word with synonyms like contamination or pollute. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Taint meaning
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
Synonyms of Taint
Using Taint
- The main meaning on this page is: A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. | A tinge, trace or touch. | A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- Useful related words include: contamination, pollute, infect, vitiate.
- In the example corpus, taint often appears in combinations such as: taint the, to taint, the taint.
Context around Taint
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Taint
- In this selection, "taint" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, factual, further, unfairly, graph, gotham and theirs stand out and add context to how "taint" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and unfairly taint the market and big city taint. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "taint" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with taint
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But other officials refused briefings, apparently not wanting Mr. Obama’s worldview to taint theirs. (15 words)
We should pause before concluding that pouring arms into Ukraine can somehow be innocent of such moral taint. (18 words)
A Minnesota court did not want the video released to the public for fear it would taint the jury pool. (20 words)
Mr Trump’s lawyers said prosecutors have not proved why such an order would be necessary, saying that his social media posts have not intimidated any possible witnesses and that there is no real concern his comments would taint the jury pool. (42 words)
As the head of the League of Shadows, Al Ghul's vindictive nature comes to light when he reveals plans to taint Gotham's water supply and aerosolize Crane's narcotic and make the entire city hysterically chaotic. (38 words)
And so the government requests a limited gag order, as well as an order requiring the parties to get the court’s permission before conducting a jury survey (read: push poll) which might taint a future panel. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
And so the government requests a limited gag order, as well as an order requiring the parties to get the court’s permission before conducting a jury survey (read: push poll) which might taint a future panel.
Anything touched by that code will also be flagged as tainted, though you can specify components that sanitize data and remove that data from the taint graph.
But beyond bias — a red herring that bogs down a lot of Fox critics — is the flat-out factual taint that shoots through the entire enterprise, to varying degrees.
In the latest development to further taint the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, prosecutors arrested four more people last week on suspicion of rigging bids for contracts related to test events prior to the pandemic-delayed Games.
Many crypto executives have cheered the authorities in their pursuit of alleged criminality in crypto, insisting that those misdeeds have little to do with the digital assets business and unfairly taint the market.
Mr Trump’s lawyers said prosecutors have not proved why such an order would be necessary, saying that his social media posts have not intimidated any possible witnesses and that there is no real concern his comments would taint the jury pool.
Thus, although there might be merit in some of America’s pronouncements, the taint of history seems to colour Africa’s reception of these sentiments.
Ultimately, this airport expansion, if approved, will irreversibly change the character of Aspen by further gentrifying the town and disenfranchising the local residents with the big city taint.
We all need to be cognizant of the emergence of incubators and distributors of anti-Indian forces orchestrating pernicious narratives to downsize our growth trajectory and taint our functional democracy and constitutional institutions,” he said.
We should pause before concluding that pouring arms into Ukraine can somehow be innocent of such moral taint.
If your dishwasher harbours bacteria or mould, they might taint your "clean" dishes and cutlery, potentially causing digestive upsets, breathing issues, or skin infections.
Unfortunately, I don’t trust the Bridgerton fandom to not taint this with their abuse over the next few years since they already have plenty of form.
A Minnesota court did not want the video released to the public for fear it would taint the jury pool.
As the head of the League of Shadows, Al Ghul's vindictive nature comes to light when he reveals plans to taint Gotham's water supply and aerosolize Crane's narcotic and make the entire city hysterically chaotic.
Because of that pervasive media coverage, a change of venue is unlikely to cure the taint of potential prejudicial pretrial publicity,” he wrote.
But other officials refused briefings, apparently not wanting Mr. Obama’s worldview to taint theirs.
Clearly, at the state and territory level, the ALP is very much a going concern, except for NSW, where the lingering taint of past failures looks likely to hold it back for a while yet.
If they survive the events of the first game, then in they're off trying to find a cure for the darkspawn taint.
It is important so that the taint of doubt is always associated with the sources that generate this baseless debris.
It is not wholesome, nor contributory to the social ambience needed for an electoral process that is free of controversy and clear of taint.
Common combinations with taint
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- taint the 15×
- to taint 9×
- the taint 8×
- taint of 8×
- would taint 4×
- might taint 2×
- of taint 2×
- taint is 2×
- taint and 2×
- could taint 2×