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Example sentences for: tainted

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Ledbetter argues that public broadcasting's independence was tainted from the get-go by the "military-communications complex."
And given that there has been no real enforcement of these rules in the past, fund-raisers haven't lost a lot of sleep about contributions turning out to be tainted.
Its political contributions were tainted.
The union's dissolution, while welcomed by the culturally confident Celts, may produce an upper lip-testing identity crisis among the English, who lately find themselves better known for soccer hooliganism and tainted beef than for bus stop queues and dead fish handshakes.
She avoids the president because she doesn't want to be tainted by him.