taint

• On today's show, Walters was in danger of heading into the first commercial break with nary a slam to her credit, but she finally found an unlikely opportunity after her cohosts indulged in a "taint" - filled discussion of Rod Blagojevich and the Senate seat to which he appointed Roland Burris. —  The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
• It's impossible to obtain objective distance from hipsterism; if you are concerned enough about the phenomenon to analyze it and discuss it, you are already somewhere on the continuum of hipsterism and are in the process of trying to rid yourself of its "taint" - as n+1's announcement of the event noted. —  PopMatters
• We can scarcely bequeath a greater sorrow to our offspring than to curse them before their birth with this hereditary taint, which is, perhaps, one of the hardest of all evils to correct. —  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
• How to get rid of this taint was a problem which our statesmen found it difficult to solve. —  The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
• I was on the lookout for the taint, the abnormal signs, of vice. —  Stories by American Authors, Volume 1

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