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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
untainted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He has a moral stature which comes from being wholly untainted by the previous regime.
▪ It is the untainted success of Labour at Brighton which dominates the view of the conference season.
▪ Katherine Lundy was determined that her children would grow up unaffected and untainted by the cursed country.
▪ On top of that, he enjoys an unusually untainted popularity among activists and grass-roots trade unionists.
▪ She was untainted by the radical politics of earlier reformers and wisely avoided the tendentious macro-economics of the Neo-Malthusians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
untainted

1580s, in the moral sense; c.1600 in the physical sense; from un- (1) "not" + past participle of taint (v.). Earlier was untained (mid-15c.), from a Middle English variant of taint (v.).

Wiktionary
untainted

a. Not tainted; free of contamination; pure.

WordNet
untainted

adj. of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation" [syn: stainless, unstained, unsullied, untarnished]

Usage examples of "untainted".

Legge, esteemed the two most illustrious patriots of Great Britain, alike distinguished and admired for their unconquerable spirit and untainted integrity.

They reported that it was a strong, untainted algorithm and would make a superb encryption standard.

Our race is descended in direct line from the demigods, the Mehruhkuhnz, untainted by the blood of effete Ehleenee.

Her only untainted feature was a set of bright sapphire eyes, and hence the name Toret had given her.

When they discovered a world of fecund oceans and sweet, untainted air, they quickened the zygotes and nursed the baby whales through their childhood terrors of sharks and other predators.

The woods of the Barrier Mountains held a plentitude of game, the sky was clear and the air untainted by the pestiferous odors of the city.

Our ignorance is every day proved by some wonderful phenomenon, and I believe this to be the reason why it is so difficult to meet with a learned man entirely untainted with superstition.

Kelvin took a breath of fresh air, untainted with dungeon odors, and smelled the spicy sweet scent of appleberries and other fruit.

Then, although he ew it was wise to leave the past interred, because that way it ined its perfection and its power, and it remained untainted the mess he had made of the rest of his life, he asked a foolish Ouestion, one he had resolved not to ask.

According to the principle, therefore, which denies necessity, and consequently causes, a man is as pure and untainted, after having committed the most horrid crime, as at the first moment of his birth, nor is his character anywise concerned in his actions, since they are not derived from it, and the wickedness of the one can never be used as a proof of the depravity of the other.

It was so good to open up one’s lungs and take in whole luscious barrelsful of the blessed God’s untainted, dew-fashioned, woodland scented air once more, after suffocating body and mind for two days and nights in the moral and physical stenches of that intolerable old buzzard-roost!

Companionship with Nels and most of the cowboys was in its effect like that of the rugged pines and crags and the untainted wind.

Christopher Haig's death, in keeping Vernon Arkwright quiet, saved Jasper Billington Innes his untainted reputation.

I still rely that the great mass of our community is untainted with these heresies, as is it's head.

With so such clarity to arm her, she could surely re-tread the paths of her childhood and remain untainted.