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Example sentences for: taint

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The convergence story is that RJR merged with Nabisco in the hope of escaping its "tobacco taint" but found instead that the taint simply spread to Nabisco.
Why should that taint his past output or harm his future career as a journalist?
The other major candidate, George W. Bush--who's already swatted McCain a couple of times about the FCC matter--is entirely free of this taint.
Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.
By making Starr look like an obsessed Ahab, Clinton and "First Spear Carrier" James Carville (Gigot) hope to taint the investigation and deter Congress from impeaching the president with the independent counsel's wiggy evidence.