Dictionary Entry
To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
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Poetry examples for “tainted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That, fot his building, he desigu;^.
And through the tainted side he minei
Who could ha:vc thought the tallest oak
Read full poem →world peace, rests upon a bare majority of one,
secured through the tainted senatorial vote from
Michigan. (Applause)
Read full poem →And bushes close in snow-like hovel warm;
There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,
And the half-wasted dog squats close and rubs,
Read full poem →--The wild boar rustles in his lair;
The fierce hounds snuff the tainted air;
But lord and hounds keep rooted there. 185
Read full poem →--The wild boar rustles in his lair;
The fierce hounds snuff the tainted air;
But lord and hounds keep rooted there.
Read full poem →They stand on the brink of that raging river,
Whose waves they have tainted with death.
It is fed from the depth of a thousand dells,
Read full poem →ASPASIA.
The soul, once tainted with so foul a crime,
No more shall glow with friendship's hallow'd ardour:
Read full poem →Let prudence obviate an impending danger:
Tainted by sloth, the parent of sedition,
The hungry janizary burns for plunder,
Read full poem →A moment gazed adown the dale,
A moment snuffed the tainted gale,
A moment listened to the cry,