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adj. corrupted or filled with imperfections.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of taint.

adj. touched by rot or decay

"As part of Erdogan's media blitz, he was interviewed on Egypt's most popular political talk show, "10 o'clock," where he defended the concept of secularism - a term tainted as "anti-Islamic" in the eyes of many Egyptians."

tainted    tainting    taints   

deflower    vitiate    spoil    mar    impair   

contaminate    contamination    imperfection   

attaint   

tainted    tainting   

infect    pollute    vitiate    poison    defile    contaminate    disease    corrupt    sully    tarnish   

Paint    Saint    acquaint    complaint    constraint    faint    feint    paint    quaint    repaint   

stench    imputation    stain    odour    tinge    odor    whiff    reproach    trace    suspicion