Associations to the word «Tainted»

Wiktionary

TAINTED, adjective. Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
TAINTED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of taint

Dictionary definition

TAINTED, adjective. Touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne