tainted

Example Sentences

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Leo came to Scotland excited to meet new friends and settle into a calm routine far from the chaos that tainted his home life before.

From BBC

Research shows that executives are tainted when their companies fail.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the store’s events are often bursting with energy, those moments are still tainted by an “underlying fear that is kind of like a dark cloud among our community,” Lima said.

From Los Angeles Times

Prosecutors in Paris will seek to establish whether the baby formula producers are liable for distributing a tainted product.

From BBC

The ruling denied the city’s proposal that the court could merely exclude the altered records as evidence, finding the evidence so tainted that a fair trial would not be possible.

From Los Angeles Times