taint

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

the state of being contaminated

verb

place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

Taint in a sentence

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove.

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