taint

Such cheerful platitudes would carry a taint of irony, in retrospect, when authorities exposed the harm and suffering they alleged had been inflicted under Guo's watch.

Escaping the taint of what spilled from the capsule and cut that day has been hard for all involved.

This is just one witness in a case which Jagtar's legal representatives from Reprieve say is characterised by unreliable, even tainted, testimony.

The woman said she was "disgusted" by Stewart, a grandfather who had worked for Royal Mail for 22 years, and he had "tainted lives".

“The whole campaign for that movie was about championing human creativity, so when that came out, it felt a little tainted,” one Oscar voter told me recently.