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UK
/ʌntˈeɪntɪd/
]
[ US /ənˈteɪntɪd/ ]
[ US /ənˈteɪntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of reputation) free from blemishes
his unsullied name
an untarnished reputation
How To Use untainted In A Sentence
- His Honour saw that if conduct is not unprofessional, the practitioner is entitled to an untainted reputation.
- In contrast, George finds great kinship in the pristine and untainted teachings of the Hebrew codifier, Moses.
- She breathed in the fresh air, untainted by the smell of bat guano, and began following the trail she had marked earlier with hair scrunchies.
- A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
- This busy town-centre cafe is the place for shoppers to catch a bite, and a hang-out for coffee drinkers in a place as yet untainted by the multinational chains.
- What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
- He still has a Quaker-like faith that if only people could hear the truth, untainted by spin, untrivialised by the media, they would begin to see the light.
- You must have felt that even the formula of the Church of Rome would be a blessed power to exercise, could it but once be accepted as a pledge that all the past was obliterated, and that from that moment a free untainted future lay before the soul -- you must have _felt_ that; you must have wished you had dared to Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
- I've managed to remain almost untainted by reality TV shows in fact.
- This is where the deepest transformation can take place, untainted and pure.