Word Finder - tainted

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To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

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To spoil (food) by contamination.

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To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.

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To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

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Meat soon taints in warm weather.

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To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.

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To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

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To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

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To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

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To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

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Corrupted or filled with imperfections.

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Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.

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(of data) Originating from an untrusted source.

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Do not use tainted values in SQL queries.

Except from these interesting but somewhat tainted sources, we know little or nothing about him.

He is free from the scholastic trifling and learned frivolity which tainted the rhetorical culture of his century.

Marcionites, named by Clement of Alexandria Antitactae (revolters against the Demiurge) held the Old Testament economy to be throughout tainted by its source; but they are not accused of licentiousness.

Whilst he correctly describes the European movement of industry, and explains it as arising out of adequate social causes, he yet, in accordance with the absolute principles which tainted his philosophy, protests against it as in- volving an entire inversion of the "natural order of things."

He was taken from the Federal service in Washington to New York City by a reform mayor and put in charge of the police, because he had shown both physical and moral courage in fighting corruption of all sorts; and the New York police force at that time was thoroughly tainted with corruption, not in its rank and file, but among its superior officers, who used the power in their hands to extort money bribes chiefly from saloonkeepers, liquor-dealers, gamblers and prostitutes.

It is tainted at its sources with the revolutionary spirit.

The officers, civil and military alike, were all tainted with the common corruption.

It was founded by plundering expeditions, and its subsequent existence was tainted by the baseness of this predatory origin.

But there is another species of deduction which, as Cliffe Leslie has shown, seriously tainted the philosophy of Smith - in which the premises are not facts ascertained by observation, but the a priori assumptions which we found in the physiocrats.

The Monophysites sometimes alleged that they could not accept the decrees of the council of Chalcedon because that council had not condemned, but (as they argued) virtually approved, three writers tainted with Nestorian principles, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret, and Ibas, bishop of Edessa.

But the former is tainted by venality, which, aggravated by the scantiness of judicial salaries or in some cases by the judge having no salary at all, is almost universal among the administrators of justice.

In her childhood she was noted for her abounding physical energy; but her vivacity, so far from being tainted by any coarse or unfeminine trait, was the direct outcome of an abnormally sensitive nervous temperament.

The victims were nearly all clergy or citizens; the king shrank from touching the Lollards of higher rank, and even employed in his service some who were notoriously tainted with heresy.

The judge excluded her evidence, ruling it ' tainted and totally inadmissible ' .

In both cases, he would not even come close to eating the tainted mutton, would he?

As long as we are tainted by sin, we cannot see God.

Implicit in CRC's protocol is the idea that tobacco money is always tainted.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Feeling saintly, I dropped the coins in the cup, pushing my tainted soul just a little bit closer to Paradise.

The rich smell of decay tainted the warm air.

Any views - however reasonable these may in themselves be - taken up by the BNP will be tainted by association.

My view of him is tainted by the fact that he half believed the accusations in the first Moscow Trial.

Implicit in CRC 's protocol is the idea that tobacco money is always tainted.

They 're not tainted by the larger industry they 're involved in.

I enjoy God because what I am experiencing now is but for a short period of time and is tainted with sin.

These mysterious locales, tainted sites and corrupt settings all bear the mark of some unmentionable crime or horrific transgression.

This makes many pet owners feel more secure, especially after the tainted pet food recalls of the past few years.

Take a gothic twist on your fairy costume by using a tainted fairy makeup kit.

A feminine yet startling look, a tainted fairy is a fun alternative for the Halloween season.

The tainted fairy look is hot for Halloween or any time you are looking to dress up.

Gothic costumes are all the rage and the Tainted Fairy costume fits the mode.

When dressing up as a tainted fairy, don't overlook your makeup.

Tainted fairy makeup is the opposite of what you would use for the basic fairy costume.

A simple way to do tainted Fairy makeup is to purchase a kit at a Halloween or costume store.

You will have everything you need for the perfect tainted fairy look.

If you are unable to purchase a makeup kit for your tainted fairy costume then make use of makeup you may have on hand.

Once you have your makeup look perfected, complete your tainted fairy costume with fairy wings, a black wig and some gothic jewelry.

It should be noted that addicts can often be easily tainted by external influences, such as contact with other users.

However, his early efforts to gain recognition were tainted by the fact that he was white in a predominantly black genre.

As for venison in particular, some deer herds are affected by a syndrome known as Chronic Wasting Disease, and it's believed to be transferable by consuming tainted meat.

Every ingredient that goes into their products must undergo testing to make sure that they are not tainted.

Animals that have been living in filthy conditions, that have manure plastered to their bodies, or that have ingested contaminated feed are more likely to be tainted with the bacteria.

It also means that tainted meat that continuously comes from the same farm or processing plant may alert inspectors that there is a problem with that farm or plant that needs to be addressed.

To form the sharp yellow, a greater concentration of nitrogen is necessary, and it cannot be tainted with other elements that will alter the stone's final coloration.

Compensation, benefits, training, advancement and retirement issues cannot be tainted with discriminatory practices.

With reports of tainted foods in the news, the issue of food safety is becoming a major issue that continues to be addressed.

S.O.S. is driven by a sample of the immediately recognizable 80s electro-pop classic Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

However, the eccentric's mom's most memorable moment came at the conclusion of the show when she ranted against the forces of the "dark side," and called the $50,000 prize "tainted."

These purists believe nothing they put in or on their bodies should be tainted with unhealthy chemicals.

Most are perfectly legit, but as always, be wary of tainted downloads (big zip files should be viewed with suspicion) and don't divulge any important information.