Tainted in a sentence as an adjective

34000 tainted cases is not "messed up big time".

If he jumps ship, the whole thing is surely tainted.

I think once one goes down this path, the success of the whole endeavor is tainted.

And in some ways, they've tainted that idea for others who may appreciate the "clout score.

In effect, you become tainted and those around you will either attack you or will keep distance in order to play safe.

Both clean and tainted coins could circulate in the same blockchain, but rarely mix... and would have different de facto values.

The chemist involved was believed to have tainted over 40,000 cases over the duration of about 10 years and they'll only get 3 to 5 years?

To be honest my own vision was tainted by Flash-based UIs and the mechanics of that, but the Flash demos I was trying to enable were fancy iPhone-like UIs.

The intellectual property law landscape is far too frightening to be worth the risk of allowing contributions from "tainted" individuals.

>Many critics have rightly pointed out the shocking failures of the Chinese food safety system — the most famous being the tainted-baby-formula scandal of 2008.

It is not possible in such a situation to make a romantic overture that is not tainted by the possibility that you are looking for a quid-pro-quo even if in fact you are not.

International trust in american companies may be fundamentally tainted now.

The sexism in this scenario is subtle and persistent, something that likely tainted all of the workplace interactions at github, allowing a female employee's problems at work to be continually ignored.

Tainted definitions

adjective

touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"

See also: corrupt