taintless

[ teynt-lis ]

adjective

1. free from or without taint; pure; innocent.

Other Words From

• taintless·ly adverb
• taintless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of taintless¹

First recorded in 1580–90; taint ¹ + -less

Example Sentences

One father, under a strict prison regime, wrote to Mr. Di Bella to thank him for the “chance you gave to my children to live in a taintless environment and to live in legality,” he said in a letter.

From New York Times

Dishes had to go in the washer and come out taintless and doing this swiftly and competently meant I was acknowledged as a human being by colleagues I wanted to be like.

From The Guardian

“We have been taintless and will remain so. We will go to jail but not pay a penny.”

From Los Angeles Times

Grander than the Greek, nobler than the Roman, the soldiers of the republic, with patriotism as taintless as the air, battled for the rights of others; for the nobility of labor; fought that mothers might own their babes; that arrogant idleness should not scar the back of patient toil, and that our country should not be a many-headed monster made of warring States, but a Nation, sovereign, great and free.

From Project Gutenberg

And from sky and lake and forest came an air inimitably virginal, the cold and taintless air of unviolated Nature, infinitely pure and strong and vital.

From Project Gutenberg

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