Taint is valid Scrabble Word

Is taint a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
5 points in Scrabble
6 points in WWF

Definitions for TAINT in dictionary:

VERB:

to stain or blemish
contaminate or pollute (something)
affect with a bad or undesirable quality
(of food or water) become contaminated or polluted
spoil with a small amount of decay or other bad quality
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
contaminate with a disease or microorganism

NOUN:

a trace of a bad or undesirable substance or quality
something with a contaminating influence or effect
the perineum.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
the state of being contaminated
something that taints

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to touch or affect slightly with something bad

Words related to TAINT

tainted8 tainting9 taintless9 taintlessly14 taints6

Words that contain TAINT

taints6 attaint7 tainted8 attaints8 tainting9 tainture8 attainted10 certainty14 taintless9 taintures9 untainted10 attainting11 attainture10 untainting11 attaintment13 attaintures11 certainties13 incertainty16 mountaintop15 taintlessly14 unattainted12 uncertainty16 untaintedly15 attaintments14 mountaintops16 incertainties15 uncertainties15 untaintedness14 untaintednesses16

How to use TAINT in a sentence

It is at any rate far less probable that this should be the case, than that such views should taint the resolutions and conduct of a bare majority.
She had no taint of intellectual aristocracy, says one of her friends.
It must bring a paltry taint into the glorious freedom of the true American spirit, but that will right itself.
All lies perfectly open, and the foul taint is nowhere.
You begin to understand me? I perceive that you are minded, on the strength of what you have seen and fancy, to taint my reputation.
The calm chastity, the lonely loveliness, so sweetly removed from taint of passion, struck John with all the emotion of art.
Smedley managed to write several fine novels, full of the joy of life, and free from the least taint of discontent or morbid feeling.
They are not wholly free from the taint which is to be detected in nearly all French fiction.
It must have been beautiful in life, and no taint of guilt had ever marred its innocence.
To understand Him, without a single taint of our mortal, finite sense of sin, sickness, or death, is to approach Him and become like Him.

There was a taint of madness in his blood, and several times he had sensed the brink at his feet.
Too literal an interpretation of the brotherhood of man might carry the taint of Socialism, and the congregation represented the wealth of the city.
There was a taint of license in her blood, perhaps inherited from the father who was most unbridled in his passions.
In our aspirations after what we called a truer life there was no material taint.
All the world! And he thought that even the bare suspicion of such an adversary within his house carried with it a taint and a condemnation.
It was regarded, so far as appears, as entirely constitutional, free from political or party taint, and highly useful.
There will be a taint in the army and the community which will endure in the relations of pacific life.
After loading, for fear of any human taint, he dipped the troughs in water and laid them in the shade to freeze.
Here is no taint of manner, no pretty posture or habit, but the simplicity of poetry and the simplicity of Nature, something on the yonder side of imagery.
When crime is not an inherited taint, but merely an acquired habit, this fact has an important practical bearing upon the proper method of dealing with it.

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