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

taint \taint\, v. i. imp.  p. p. tainted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   tainting.
   to thrust ineffectually with a lance. obs.
   1913 webster
see also:
tainted tainting 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
corrupt besmirched damaged flyblown spotted stained 
sullied tarnished 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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