Clues for the word "TAINT"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 270 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of taint
- n. - A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- n. - An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- v. i. - To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- v. t. - To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- v. t. - To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- v. t. - To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
- v. t. - Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- v. i. - To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- v. i. - To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
- n. - Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- n. - Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- n. - A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
Referring Clues
- "___ so!"
- Sully
- Slight contamination
- Discredit
- Corrupt
- Despoil
- Tarnish
- Rejoinder to "'Tis!"
- "___ funny, McGee!"
- Infect
- Trace of dishonor
- Slangy denial
- Poison
- Old-fashioned contraction
- Besmirch
- Opposite of purify
- Cast aspersions on
- Adulterate
- Dogpatch negative
- Spoil
- Stigmatize
- Contaminate
- Slangy opposite of 'tis
- Make impure
- Mark of Cain
- "___ funny, McGee!"
- 'Tis counter
- Ruin morally
- Tarnish, as a reputation
- Render impure
- Opposite of "'tis"
- "'Tis!" response
- Disgrace trace
- Blemish
- Perineum, slangily
- Pollute
- Befoul
- Stain
- Dirty
- Contaminate, as water
- Make dirty
- Hint of scandal
- Go bad, as meat
- Corrupt, as evidence
- Opposite of "purify"
- Vitiate
- Anatomical in-between area, slangily
- Defile, sully
- (Trace of) corruption
- Corruption? They say not
- In a manner of speaking it is not pollution
- It is not commonly corrupt
- Smear of snot (minus apostrophes)
- Defect - contamination
- Brown tin-opener, one intrinsic flaw
- It's not corruption
- It isn't commonly seen as corruption
- Blemish denied by Londoner
- Corrupt it isn't!
- Contamination isn't common
- "It is not", said Mark
- Stigmatise
- Soil taken from mountain top
- Infection making a tint possibly visible
- Maybe it isn't bad?
- A trace of disgrace
- Infection? Maybe it isn't
- Maybe 'tisn't a defect?
- Black mark
- Apt letters missing from con_ _m_ _a_e
- Maybe it isn't said to be a bad thing?
- Contaminating trace
- "'Tis" opposite
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2026
- LA Times - October 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2025
- New York Times - June 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 01, 2025
- LA Times - March 30, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 10, 2025
- New York Times - December 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 27, 2024
- Family Time - August 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 22, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 06, 2024
- Family Time - April 22, 2024
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