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tainted
adjective
1 tainted
Touched by rot or decay:
— Tainted bacon.
synonym: corrupt.
Roget 401:
fetid;
strong-smelling;
high,
bad,
strong,
fulsome,
offensive,
noisome,
rank,
rancid,
reasty†,
tainted,
musty,
fusty,
frouzy†;
olid†,
olidous†;
nidorous†;
smelling,
stinking;
putrid
etc.
653;
suffocating,
mephitic;
empyreumatic†.
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Roget 651:
imperfect;
not perfect
etc.
650;
deficient,
defective;
faulty,
unsound,
tainted;
out of order,
out of tune;
cracked,
leaky;
sprung;
warped
etc.
(distort)
243;
lame;
injured
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
peccant
etc.
(bad)
649;
frail
etc.
(weak)
160;
inadequate
etc.
(insufficient)
640;
crude
etc.
(unprepared)
674;
incomplete
etc.
53;
found wanting;
below par;
short-handed;
below its full strength,
under its full strength,
below its full complement.
indifferent,
middling,
ordinary,
mediocre;
average
etc.
29;
so-so;
coucicouci,
milk and water;
tolerable,
fair,
passable;
pretty well,
pretty good;
rather good,
moderately good;
good;
good enough,
well enough,
adequate;
decent;
not bad,
not amiss;
inobjectionable†,
unobjectionable,
admissible,
bearable,
only better than nothing.
secondary,
inferior;
second-rate,
second-best;
one-horse [U.S.].
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Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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Roget 655:
diseased;
ailing
etc.
v.;
ill,
ill of;
taken ill,
seized with;
indisposed,
unwell,
sick,
squeamish,
poorly,
seedy;
affected with illness,
afflicted with illness;
laid up,
confined,
bedridden,
invalided,
in hospital,
on the sick list;
out of health,
out of sorts;
under the weather [U.S.];
valetudinary†.
unsound,
unhealthy;
sickly,
morbid,
morbose†,
healthless†,
infirm,
chlorotic [Med.],
unbraced†.
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting.
morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated,
poisoned,
tabid†,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered;
rotten,
rotten to the core,
rotten at the core;
withered,
palsied,
paralytic;
dyspeptic;
luetic†,
pneumonic,
pulmonic [Med.],
phthisic†,
rachitic;
syntectic†,
syntectical†;
tabetic†,
varicose.
touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping;
hors de combat
etc.
(useless)
645 [Fr.].
weakly,
weakened
etc.
(weak)
160;
decrepit;
decayed
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
incurable
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
in declining health;
cranky;
in a bad way,
in danger,
prostrate;
moribund
etc.
(death)
360.
morbific
etc.
657†;
epidemic,
endemic;
zymotic†.
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Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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