The word
"taint" means to contaminate, pollute, or spoil something, making it impure or harmful.
Full definition
Waddle was one of England's best players at Italia 90, so it was only right that his name by
tainted by penalty misery.
The cost for Remain of recruiting Death, Plague, Famine and War to their cause is measured in credibility: that not only will the exaggerated be discounted by the public but so, by
taint of association, will the legitimate.
They placed the cloak in a tank of water
tainted with enough white paint to make light diffuse through it more slowly than through the polymer.
And if they are of good character, were they still
not tainted by the school's teaching which makes them ineligible forever?
The Greenlight community offers a relief to the mass pile of
tainted water with many anticipated titles that offer delightfully obscure concepts combined with simple yet creative gameplay.
Kidney problems can arise if they ingest toxins, from certain medications and even from
tainted food.
That «wardship» also protects the public square
from tainting by the contagion of religion, to the «exclusion» or at least discomfort of the professional agnostic.
If you don't remember — and hopefully, you do — an issue with
tainted products led to more than 100 animal deaths and the recall of thousands of items from retail shelves.
More on food borne illness Food - borne Illness: Worst - Case Scenario If You Want Safe Food, Know Where It Comes From Massive Canadian Recall of Tainted Meat
Through face - to - face workshops, marriage help books and tapes, and more recently from online courses, couples learn to tame anger so it doesn't
taint love.
The Organized Real Estate bureaucracies clearly ignore the major problems down - under in pursuit of maintaining their castles in - the - sky... with
tainted money.
We encourage any good causes looking to corporate sponsorship to put ethical policies in place so they do not
become tainted by association with companies that abuse human rights and the environment.»
Prof. Robert West: I have not and will not accept any kind of funds, payments or hospitality from companies that make e-cigarettes because of the risk of being perceived as
tainted on that count.
If this sounds like a strange fix, some courts agree, and have expressly disapproved of the government's use of
taint teams to review documents, including the federal court in the same district where the search of Cohen's office occurred.
In the past, the NFL Players Association warned its players to avoid eating meat in China or Mexico due to the potential
for tainted meat.
«It's a nightmare of a problem,» said Mark Krstic, a specialist in
smoke taint at the Australian Wine Research Institute who is liaising with worried growers in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia state.
She claimed that after she had threatened to break off their decade - long affair, Schmidt infected her with
tainted blood in place of one of her regular vitamin injections.
Bernstein, who doesn't see technology as «inherently dangerous,» suggested that Facebook critics like Common Sense are
also tainted by accepting $ 50 million in donated air time for a campaign warning about the dangers of technology addiction.
Your basic point is well taken: Scribd's basic business model has been
so tainted for so long that dealing with them is a bit like making a pact with the devil.
Despite the crucial role that religious organizations and individuals have long played in our country, some voices now suggest that they and their work are somehow
tainted because of their beliefs about marriage and sexuality.
Yet Miller acknowledged to the Washington Post that «at the end of the day, it may be the most
tainted brand in America.»
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 40 000 such landfills
now taint water supplies across the nation.
Getting tainted products off store shelves is paramount to controlling a problem.
When
tainted evidence is thrown out the prosecution will have a difficult time proving their case.
Reverse mortgages have a slightly
tainted reputation in the retirement - savings world, for various reasons: Financial planners often think of them as a last resort for people with no other resources; origination fees can be high; and high - profile fraud cases involving lenders in the 1990s and 2000s made consumers justifiably skittish about them.
Now it seems that there were
still tainted bloodlines after the flood but they weren't as prevalent, were more contained.
After their cat Cutest died from eating
tainted pet food, the Barbi Twins are fighting for pet rights and a safe pet food bill and have joined a class action lawsuit.
The food maker had so far recovered some 1.2 million packages of
potentially tainted products out of 6.4 million it wants to recall, he added.
Foreign infant formula is a highly coveted item in China after a 2008 scandal
when tainted infant formula from a domestic provider left at least six children dead and damaged public trust.
The first notice many residents received
about tainted water was on their water bills, which many have said they didn't even notice.
The primary culprit in the recent flare - up caused by
tainted steroids, Exserohilum rostratum, is not an especially picky eater.
Hand - off results: In addition to giving us a game that actually fits our hand - off analogy, EA gave Blitz fans a taste of their past
without tainting it too much with Madden NFL sensibilities.
It is the first comprehensive look at the PFOA blood levels among those people who live or had lived in the Rensselaer County village and
drank tainted water over an unknown period.
I'm sure Iams has discontinued
using tainted wheat gluten from China.
This suspicion,
which taints faculty relations, spawns a second suspicion — of any and all potential leaders, administrative or otherwise.
In double - blind tastings, the subjects recognized
cork taint from TCA at concentrations as low as 10 parts per trillion.
If I once believed the earth was flat, is my belief now that the earth is round
somehow tainted due to that?
On behalf of the Oreshika
Tainted Bloodlines team, I am excited to announce the in - game competition we are calling Wailers Way.
A few cork companies have recently begun to use machinery that is able to sense and
remove tainted cork during the processing stage.
«Increasingly, we want to know that companies dealing in virtual currency are performing some kind of KYC to
avoid tainted funds, but this has yet to be firmly put in place.»
From Microsoft's Xbox One pricing to Electronic Arts boasting about advances in virtual ball bouncing to Ubisoft threatening the world with
tainted cash, she saw it all.
Last year a facility in Framingham, Massachusetts, prepared a batch of
tainted drugs that led to the deaths of 64 people.
Veteran Assemblyman Peter Abbate (D - Brooklyn) says Bharara's cryptic comments can unfairly
taint all the lawmakers since the public does not know who is under investigation and who isn't.